Opinion

The Editor, Re: "Let Bentley live," Letters, August 21. It is precisely because people want to have control over their dying days that they create "living wills," also known as "advanced directives.

The Editor, Re: "What's missing from the bully talk?" Column, Aug. 28 As a parent who has had both my kids bullied by a child at my children's school, I'd like to respond to this article. These are my observations based on what I've been through.

I turned 30 when it was practically a capital offence. It was the beginning of the end of life - or at least, it was certainly the end of youth. At 30, you became an old man (or woman), and were absorbed into "the establishment.

Step right up. There's an auction going on for enough bandwidth on Canada's wireless infrastructure to introduce a whole new carrier to our market of scant few options.

The Editor, Re: "McDonald's apologizes to woman," News, Aug. 28.

The Editor, TransLink says just 6,000 passengers per day pay cash to transfer from buses to SkyTrain. Yet 10,000 bus trips per day system-wide terminate at a SkyTrain station.

The Editor, Re: "Having the right to die," Editorial, Aug. 14.

Until not very long ago, "prorogue" wasn't a four-letter word.

Open letter to Alice Wong, Re: Annual community barbecue: I had to decline your invitation to have lunch Saturday, Aug. 24. I couldn't possibly sit down to lunch with an MP who, in my view, has shown such poor judgement in the recent past.

When then-Premier Mike Harcourt's government was engulfed in scandal and controversy in the mid-1990s, speculation began to build on whether he could hang on as leader.