Opinion

“In the best interest of our customers, we have worked alongside government … to identify strategies to help lower both this year’s rate increase … and alleviate the expected ongoing pressure injury claims will continue to put on insurance rates …” –

Imagine starting 2016 with saving someone’s life. A real opportunity exists to do that, particularly among the local multicultural community, as an urgent search gets underway to find a stem cell donor match for Lynn Valley’s Nancy Taylor.

It has become as much a new year’s tradition as anything: the B.C. government’s annual news release that crows about how it keeps “taxes low for B.C. families.

Dear Editor: It is with some amusement that I looked closely at the picture accompanying the cnv.org/CityCollect garbage collection app advertisement (page 21 of the Wednesday, Dec. 30 edition).

Ever the optimists, we look at 2016 like a yet-to-be-opened gift.

As we head into a new year, it appears more than likely that many of the issues that dominated B.C. politics in 2015 will re-emerge in the coming 12 months. After all, we are a polarized province.

2016 will prove to be a pivotal year for everyone. A Universal 9-Year, it will generally include themes of ending, completion and graduation in preparation for major new initiatives in 2017.

Dear Editor: Re: Merchants Key to Edgemont Charm , Dec. 2 Mailbox. “You call someplace paradise, kiss it goodbye” — “The Last Resort,” Don Henley and Glen Frey.

Dear Editor: I am a senior and I was in a checkout queue at Walmart last week. When it finally came my turn, a man with his young boy pushed in and asked the clerk for a price check.

In snooty West Vancouver, where we think foreign relations begin at the North Vancouver border, it is novel to have a bona fide parliamentary secretary for the federal foreign affairs minister.