Opinion

It’s very easy – and not by any means wrong – to criticize your mayor and council.

Don’t make complicated what is simple. Just mark your preference for the current first-past-the-post voting system. Nothing more. Then, down pens. Of course FPTP is imperfect. All systems are. None will ever satisfy everyone on every occasion.

This month, Canada Post willing, British Columbians will be voting on whether or not to adopt a new way to elect our provincial government.

This past Canada Day, while all of us were enjoying a well-earned day off, the three North Shore governments together passed an important milestone.

Sorry to interrupt your sexy Halloween celebrations, but there’s something truly horrifying that you really need to know.

The ballots for the referendum on electoral reform are just starting to arrive in everyone’s home, and already I’m getting tired of the rhetoric and exaggerations from those on both sides of the debate.

What happened in Peachland this week was as lawful as it was ludicrous. Deadlocked at the ballot box, Peachland’s two mayoralty candidates could only gape while democracy was reduced to a game of chance.

Dear Editor: As predicted, proponents of the “No to proportional representation” are trying to scare voters from supporting much needed changes to our electoral system – yet again. They claim that: 1) B.C.

Dear Editor : As a former resident and councillor of the District of North Vancouver I like to keep apprised of what is going on in my old “hood.

The signs have now come down and Saturday’s election is shrinking (some would say mercifully) in the rear view mirror. For all the campaign slogans and candidate forums, in the end what mattered most is who showed up to the ballot box.