Opinion

People should be forgiven if their level of Christmas cheer fails to match yours this time of year. Winter can be depressing. Getting up in the dark only to leave work at the end of the day facing the same blackness takes an unconscious toll.

The Editor, I had a wonderful Christmas with my family. The day started early and ended with a great traditional Christmas dinner. One of the things that we enjoy is following Santa as he travels around the world on "Norad Tracks Santa.

The Editor, To counter the negative coverage of our health care system, I would like to cite my experience with Richmond Hospital and its cancer clinic. Last January 2010, I was quite sick and was admitted to the Richmond General.

When family gatherings inspire fear and loathing in the pit of your stomach, it's probably not because of the appetizers . . . unless you're like my son and had a bad mushroom experience in early life.

The Editor, Is it worth attending the next round of Port Metro Vancouver meetings on the Deltaport Terminal, road and rail improvement project? This question is the same one that one of our VAPOR (the YVR anti-jet fuel in the estuary group - also inv

The Editor, Re: "Tories need a tragedy before they act," Editorial, Dec. 14. I take exception to your editorial on the Attawapiskat reserve situation. The band has received $34 million of taxpayer's money each year over at least the past three years.

At this time of the year, Christmas carols bring us joy and cheer (and help send X particles to Santa, to strengthen him in his battle against Frosty - see last week's column). But I think it's important to create categories for everything.

An editorial published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Stop the Violence and Play Hockey, conflates fighting with head trauma and muddies the waters of a needed debate before it even starts.

The Editor, High school students who participate in the First Responder Program in Richmond and Vancouver will be delivering over 4,000 pairs of socks, underwear and sweaters to St. Paul's Emergency and Covenant House Wednesday, Dec. 21.

The deal recently hammered out between school support unions and their employer potentially contains both good and bad news for the one union that never seems to get a deal - the B.C. Teachers Federation.