Opinion

The Editor, Let me get this straight: Harper's puppets in Parliament plan to spend $870,000 on a 200th birthday gig for Sir John A. Macdonald, who certainly won't attend the soirée, seeing as he has been dead since June 1891.

There is a local jewelry designer named Andrea Waines who is known for hand stamping inspirational quotes onto small prisms of sterling silver.

Personal statistics show conventional cable TV still the pricier option

The Editor, Re: "Ferry tales of woe," Editorial, Jan. 9. The looming crisis at BC Ferries is something we all need to think about. It will affect you, even if you never use them.

The Mount Seymour Parkway crash that sent a 70year-old pedestrian to hospital this week was doubtless unintentional, small consolation though that may be.

The Editor, Re: "Veil lifted on fairness," Editorial, Dec. 28. We are repeatedly informed that the wearing of the Niqab is not a dictate from the Quran.

With the election campaign getting closer, every day becomes precious to both major parties. And because the B.C. Liberals are the ones fighting to climb out of a big hole, any day that isn't doing precisely that becomes a lost one.

The Editor, I saw on the news that some people were fighting the cost of hospital parking back east. What is so upsetting is that the sick are being penalized and that is not fair.

Are you happy with your life? If you are, congratulations! A cynic would say, "Enjoy it while you can. It won't last." Life can be a rollercoaster ride of high and low points, successes and failures, good fortune and bad luck.

The Editor, After a 10 year absence from driving the city`s main road, I decided it was time to man up and get with the program. If No. 5 Road is called the "Highway to Heaven" then No. 3 Road should be called the "Highway to Hell.