Opinion

Dear Editor: Re: A Christmas Chrestomathy – No Refunds, No Returns , Dec. 14 This Just In opinion column by Trevor Lautens. Bravo Mr. Lautens.

Dear Editor: I find it odd that the two most important issues covered by Wednesday’s (Dec.

There’s a time between the height of New Year’s Eve revelry and the pit of New Year’s Day regret when we look at the 12 months to come like an artist beholding an untouched canvas In that moment we’re seized by the possibility things could be better.

Politics. It isn’t over ’til it’s over, but at this writing we’ve survived them all in 2018: world, federal, provincial, local, climate, Trumpian, all manner of politics.

And so the big-tent parties can heave a sigh of relief, while the B.C. Green Party can only look on despairingly as its best chance at escaping the political margins has vanished, likely for a very, very long time.

A little more than 140 Christmases ago, an age when personal correspondence was spectacular and the Earth’s temperature was reasonable, Mark Twain’s daughter Susie got a letter from Santa Claus.

Dear Editor: Alberta believes their present economic difficulties are due in large part to the delay of the Trans Mountain expansion and the inability to access Asian markets.

A lot of important things have happened on the North Shore this year. There was an election with three retiring mayors in need of replacing, a monumental moment that could potentially change the fate of our three municipalities forever.

Dear Editor: Last Sunday (Dec. 16) about 6 p.m., our cat was hit by a car at Lynn Valley Road and the entrance to the highway. I want to thank Jenny and the other three people who stopped to try and help him.

Who doesn’t remember Clark Griswold kidnapping his boss in Christmas Vacation , a bell ringing and an angel getting its wings in It’s a Wonderful Life , and nothing says Christmas quite like John McClane crawling through a ventilation shaft in Die Ha