Opinion

The Editor, I was waiting for the bus at one of the stops at Brighouse Station, when out of the corner of my eye, I saw the wind toss newspapers around on the side walk.

The Editor, There’s an old saying: “If you don’t vote, you don’t get to complain.” The reality is that it doesn’t really matter either way because the political system offers no way for citizens to do anything else but vote.

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.