Opinion

The Editor, Re: "Ikea, union lock into mediation," News, July 17. With regards to the recent story on the labour dispute at the Richmond Ikea, it might have been nice if the writer had gotten a little more detail.

Eight of a 10-part series. Despite all our efforts to deal logically with our money, we all fail to some degree or another. Behavioural finance examines the influence of social beliefs, psychology and emotion on economic decision making.

The Editor, Re: "Cab fears allayed as firm breaks into YVR market," News, July 19. "Cab fears unfounded" would be a more accurate headline.

Recently Richmond has a new bus in town, and it is called the "Sixty-Foot Pilot Bus." These buses recently arrived last month and are replacing majority of the old buses on the 403 route. With the new revolutionary buses, No.

Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, when asked to express the heart of Buddhism in a few words replied, "Everything changes." That's an apt description of our lives. That change is generally a positive thing for children.

This week we saw a shuffling of the federal cabinet. It was more a game of musical chairs than a real changing of the guard. More newsworthy however, was some of the apparently required reading for new federal ministers.

I hate all these summer movies. They're so samey, so repetitive, so much like last summer's, and the summer before that.

Being a regular TransLink user, I recently started looking into the arrival of the re-loadable Compass Cards coming out in late 2013, which are supposed to be a more innovative way to provide service to the public.

A young person's guide to what's important in life

Many have expressed desire for the Garden City Lands to become a world class park like Stanley Park or New York's Central Park. Both these parks' evolution took more than 100 years.