Opinion

It would be very unfortunate if the all-party committee discussing the appointment of the province’s representative for children and youth does not agree to keep Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond in the role.

B.C.’s job market held steady in July, with unemployment at 7.3 per cent. The latest Statistics Canada job data were released as global financial markets teetered on the edge of another recession.

Plans to incinerate Metro Vancouver’s garbage are not going over well in Fraser Valley communities like Abbotsford and Chilliwack. This is not surprising considering the fact that pollutants released into the Lower Mainland’s air always end up hovering over the Fraser Valley where they become concentrated.

I write this letter as a warning to anyone who has ever had their personal ID stolen. Someone else out there wants credit in your name. That someone could be the thief themselves or a person who the information has been passed on or sold to.

I want to express my congratulations to the much needed Valley Express bus service to Vancouver.

We agree salmon farming needs to be done in a responsible manner. It is clear there are fundamental challenges of sea lice and disease from farms getting into the wild, and intensive open-net aquaculture has a heavy impact on ecosystems. Scientists around the world have identified these major concerns in light of the sorry track record of open-net fish farming in Norway, Scotland, Chile, and eastern Canada.

B.C. Green Party leader Jane Sterk clarifies her party's position on smart meters, and how it has changed in the past two years.

The election of Elizabeth May as Canada’s first-ever Green Party MP was supposed to be a breakthrough for environmental issues. Too bad she blew it.

Protecting wild salmon is an important issue – one that incites deep passion in many people. Sometimes in that passion though, information can be overlooked. With that in mind, we wanted to add some clarification around a few items in “Wild salmon meeting at Skwah”, July 21, 2011.

Although initially strongly negative on the HST, I have long since realized my feelings were really a reaction to Gordon Campbell’s assumption that he could get away with not explaining it in advance, so that it could be debated publicly before it was passed into law. That assumption cost him the premiership.