Letters: Canada Post, mail, home delivery, retailers, Tim Stevenson, conflict...
Canada Post decision is maddening I was dismayed by the changes announced Wednesday regarding Canada Post, especially the plans for phasing out door-to-door delivery in urban areas. This will not only...
View ArticleLetters: Charities, light bulbs, Canada Post, casino, James Moore, crime,...
Are ‘bribes’ from charities behind drop in donations? There have been several stories in the newspaper and on television about the problem of the lack of charitable donations from the public. I would...
View ArticleLetters: Anti-fur activists, Brooklyn Clothing, human rights, Port Mann...
Activists harm their cause Early in December I walked by Brooklyn Clothing to see what all the yelling was about that I could hear two blocks away. Jason Overbo is correct in his claim that the...
View ArticleNew marijuana law stinks
In the spring of 1997, four days before his 20th birthday, my new friend Bob Raven was goofing around at Pioneer Park in Kamloops, playing volleyball and having fun with his buddies when he decided to...
View ArticleEditorial: Canada Post should rethink its community mailbox plan, given thefts
It’s hard to reconcile Canada Post’s revelation that Metro Vancouver has Canada’s worst mail-theft problem from community mailboxes with its continued plans to replace home delivery for many Canadians...
View ArticleLetters: Teachers, BCTF, business, B.C. economy, Vision Vancouver, farm...
Iker earns his pay Yes, B.C. Teachers’ Federation president Jim Iker and his wife, both teachers, make good wages. They have also gone to post-secondary school for at least six or seven years each....
View ArticleEditorial: Smart phones, web, mean more great pics
The picture to the right, Wait for me, Daddy, taken by acclaimed Province photographer Claude Detloff, is the most famous photograph in this newspaper’s 116-year history. It captures five-year-old...
View ArticleLetters: Viaducts, developers, congestion, Gregor Robertson, community...
Developers should pay the $200m to remove the viaducts I don’t have a problem with the viaducts being removed but why are Vancouver taxpayers on the hook for the $200 million to remove them? If I sell...
View ArticleLetters: Halloween fireworks, Canada Post, poppy volunteers, Jamie Oliver,...
It’s time to ban noisy Halloween fireworks, reader argues I called 911 Sunday at about 3 a.m. after having endured hours of fireworks — rockets loud as cannons, screeching and sizzling ones and strings...
View ArticleLetters: Taxi regulations, Uber, technology, climate, Trudeau deficit, port...
Taxi regs need to be totally modernized Your Vancouver taxi-shortage story pushed for more cabs, which would be helpful, but so would common sense regulations. A cab ride to the airport from New...
View ArticleLetters: B.C. budget, disability benefits, cabbies, Uber, tech change,...
Kinder government with deficit spending would be better Prior to my retirement, I worked for what is now the Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation. I remember when the courts determined...
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