Opinion

Dear Editor: An open letter to pet columnist Joan Klucha: I read your column of Sept. 6 with interest. It was entitled Dogs Are Precious Cargo and I was curious to see if you might offer advice about safely transporting pets in a motor vehicle.

Last Friday, the terrorist attacks in Paris deeply shocked the world. The events that left 129 people dead are indeed sickening. In the days that followed, however, there has been a disturbing sentiment linking those attacks to Syrian refugees.

Dear Editor: Re: Visit to Voting Booth Prompts Election Reflection , Oct. 16 opinion column. This letter comes in regard to the remarks made in your column The North Side on Oct.

Dear Editor: Re: Ambleside Waterfront Plan Unveiled , Nov. 1 news story On the same evening (Oct.

Deep down we all think we’re great drivers. We see James Bond driving through a Parisian bakery while shooting at a KGB assassin with one hand and sewing up a stab wound with the other and we think to ourselves: I could do that.

Government scientists across Canada were crying “Eureka!” this week after their new prime minister removed the gags that had been stuffed in their mouths for the last nine years.

A provocative study from UBC has found that provinces with mandatory bicycle helmet laws don’t enjoy lower hospitalization rates for cyclists.

Dear Editor: Re: Cub Killings Prompt Call for Policy Review , Nov. 4 Other Voices. Despite the record number of human-bear conflict calls, the number of black bears destroyed by conservation officers is actually on a downward trend.

Dear Editor: Re: Time for Deconstruction Instead of Demolition , Nov. 4 Mailbox 4.

Will British Columbia benefit from what appears to be a remarkably new tone of government slowly emerging in Ottawa? There’s every reason to think so, on a number of policy fronts. And in many cases a large amount of federal dollars flowing B.C.