Opinion

Richmond - The Editor, This past Friday (Nov. 22) on National Housing Day, a rally in Toronto started the Pan-Canadian Week of Action for Housing.

Richmond - The Editor, On Nov 18, I was at my children's place on Steveston Highway. For the second time in two weeks, my grandson got to witness a pedestrian getting hit at Steveston Highway and Trimaran Gate.

The Richmond News received more than a dozen letters Wednesday concerned over news that Canadian officials are negotiating proposed new regulation of the Internet in closed door trade talks in Salt Lake, Utah this week.

Richmond - The Editor, It was as good as graduation night for 11 ESL creative writers at a workshop with Nancy Lee, writer-in-residence at Richmond Public Library Wednesday night.

A Walmart in Canton, Ohio, made headlines when it was revealed, a week before American Thanksgiving, that it was holding a food drive. Nope, not for the less fortunate members of its own community. For some of its own staff members.

The Editor, The proposed 80-million-litre jet fuel facility is getting closer to reality. The government has announced it will make a decision by Dec. 24 as to whether it passes their so-called "environmental review.

The passing last week of a former B.C. labour leader was a reminder of how much both the labour movement and the so-called "political left" have changed in this province.

Richmond - The Editor, I was on the curbside lane at Minoru/Landsdowne. As the lights flashed green, a car on my left cut in front of me, making a dangerous, illegal right turn. It could have resulted in a nasty accident on a wintry road.

Richmond - The Editor, I am writing because I have been troubled for a couple weeks by an incident that took place at the Sikh Temple on No. 5 Road.My car was broken into at my brother's wedding and my valuables were taken.

The Editor, Canada's national Child Day is held on Nov. 20 each year, as enacted by the Parliament of Canada in 1993. All members of the House of Commons agreed in 1989 to eliminate child poverty by the year 2000. It still hasn't happened.