Opinion

The municipal election results in three key areas should cause alarm bells to ring in NDP circles, and celebration fireworks to go off in Green Party ones and perhaps among B.C. Liberals as well.

A few years ago, the province put together a task force on reforming rules for local elections. The group received public comment and made recommendations. Unfortunately, the most important of those — spending and contribution limits ­— were shelved.

The Editor, We would like to thank the citizens of Richmond for their support in the civic election and congratulate all winning candidates and those candidates who put their names forward.

The Editor, I’d like to congratulate all of the candidates for council and trustee who submitted their names to run for public office. Democracy is strengthened when more people, of varying backgrounds and viewpoints, run for office.

If you’re reading this on dead trees, there’s a good chance you were born sometime between 1930 and 1980.

The Editor, I heard of the Rick Mercer Rant about the change in the Department of Veterans Affairs programs for our vets and the online and phone app availability, and applaud him for drawing this to the attention of the masses.

The Editor, A big thank you to the many schools, businesses, organizations, and individuals who held food and cash donation drives through Thanksgiving and Halloween. Thanksgiving came early this year with the BC Thanksgiving Food Drive on Sept. 20.

On Tuesday, TransLink announced it will adopt a host of recommendations about how to fix a buggy SkyTrain system that trapped hundreds of passengers last summer. Twice. In less than a week.

That was an interesting election, no doubt, although, in the end, there weren’t many surprises.

C ongratulations and thanks are in order for all those who were elected, as well as those who faced defeat at the polls in Saturday’s civic elections.