Opinion

The Editor, Part of my retirement planning included the possibilities of volunteering with the SPCA or Wildlife Rescue.

The unfairness and absurdity of one of the B.C. government's more controversial laws was on full display this past week, as the B.C.

The Editor, Re: "Driving kids to school a traffic and environmental hazard," News, Aug. 22.

The Editor, Re: "Shark fin protests planned for Richmond shopping centres," News, Aug. 17.

The Editor, Re: "SPCA barking up wrong tree (regarding the SPCA's adoption screening process)," Letters, Aug. 22. The paperwork is required to track you down should your kitten become a found stray.

One of Canada's biggest news organizations announced this week that it would be putting up pay walls on some of its websites, including those of the Province and the Vancouver Sun.

The Editor, Recently, my sister, niece and I caught a cab from the taxi stand at YVR. The cab driver loaded our baggage into the trunk and was quite cordial until we got in and gave him the address.

The Editor, On Aug. 16, we spotted a pet carrier that had been thrown into the bush just off of Shell Road. We were horrified to find it contained a white Persian cat with big yellow eyes, starving, dehydrated, and suffocating in its own waste.

Steven Jobs ended his 2005 commencement address at Stanford University with a simple insight gleaned from the 1975 final edition of The Whole Earth Catalogue: "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.

Many business owners want their legacy to continue. Unfortunately, according to BDO Canada, only one-third of family-owned businesses survive the transition to second generation, with just a third of these getting to the next.