Opinion

Exactly what have the B.C. Liberals been doing since winning the May election? We know they're not in the legislature, tackling issues and answering questions.

The fundamental weakness of Crown corporations is that they do not have to compete in the real world. That should be their strength, of course. But that's hard to reconcile when, for instance, B.C.

Dear Editor: I walked briskly along Lonsdale Avenue last Friday evening (Dec. 6), warmly bundled up as the temperature had fallen several degrees below zero.

Is TransLink nearing the breaking point? It's a question worth posing as frustrations expressed by a number of mayors and councils over transit and transportation priorities continue to mount and boil over for public display.

Dear Editor: Jane Seyd's two-part Sunday Focus series, The Bridge's Long Shadow and The Bridge's Heavy Burden (Dec.

Dear Editor: Most of us have a Christmas tree purchase on our "to-do" list.

Dear Editor: How many more people have to die on B.C.

Dear Editor: Christy Clark's promised referendum on TransLink funding is both undemocratic and inappropriate.There will be heated debate and misleading statements from all sides.

Residents of the North Shore learned his weekend that emergency responders have got their number - literally. That's after the North Shore's "rapid alert" system was used to help in the search for a missing Alzheimer's patient.

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet." — William Shakespeare None of today's stories smell as sweet as summer roses. Nor, unfortunately, are they as enticing as the scent of Christmas spices.