Opinion

Richmond - The Editor, On Thursday July 10, my wife and I had a double appointment with an ophthalmic physician and surgeon at Central Square in Richmond We were advised it would take one and a half hours.

Richmond - Open letter to Linda Reid, MLA, This past school year I taught a child, who because of deficits in his/her ability to process receptive and expressive language, scored in the first percentile for his/her age range.

It's time to talk about the birds and the bees. Unfortunately, the facts of life aren't all sunny these days. Bee colonies across North America are dying off in shocking numbers.

The weather can get you killed. We don't worry too much about tornadoes in this neck of the woods. About all we get around here is the odd dust devil... which admittedly, sometimes can throw up enough dust to irritate the eyes.

In 2010, marijuana legalization activist Marc Emery was handed a fiveyear jail sentence in a Seattle courtroom for selling seeds that grow into the cannabis plant.

Anyone who has been paying attention to the evolution of First Nations rights and powers in B.C. over the past 20 years or so should not be surprised by the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision that recognized a specific aboriginal title.

Richmond - The Editor, Re: "Wong: Chinese vote," News, July 9.

Richmond - The Editor, Re: "Disturbing the peace," News, July 9. There is a little park directly across River Road from the Ray-Mont Logistics yard.I work nearby and used to escape there at lunchtime to enjoy the view of the river while I ate.

In the early 20th Century, Canada didn't have much of a navy. We were still conjoined with Britain, and one of the consuming federal issues of the pre-First World War years was whether to properly fund a real and independent Canadian Navy.

We raised a glass last year when the province announced the liquor policy review. For those of us who enjoy a tipple now and again, it was high time for some sober changes to our nonsensical, prohibition-era booze laws.