Opinion

Editor: On July 1, Canada's 147th birthday, will we be noting that Canada has been recruiting its youngest and most naive to die in foreign wars and on so-called peace missions for almost 150 years, but our MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay and her Tory cabinet

Editor: Your editorial cartoon on June 11, depicting the orchestration of a greedy and selfish BCTF threatened by a hammer-wielding premier, is an ignorant, provocative, poorly-drawn piece of nastiness.

Many parents are struggling with a continuing school labour dispute. All B.C. school kids are the victims of an ugly, long-term dispute over who controls what happens in our schools.

Editor: This letter summarizes and updates the efforts of the Canadian part of the Cross Border Coalition to have the Industry Canada petition the Federal Communications Commission in the U.S.

Editor: Re: Life sentence nothing more than sham, letter to the editor, June 11 Never mind the death penalty, what's needed is a "life penalty" to toughen Canada's judicial response to all cases of capital murder by making life sentences truly mean l

Editor: Re: Provincial gov't getting good bang for its education buck, Community Comment, June 11 I couldn't agree more with the headline.

Editor: It is with tremendous dismay that our high school in Ladner is cancelling the Work Options program this fall. The teachers and support staff are outstanding and my Grade 10 student will likely be thrown to the wind.

Students at English Bluff Elementary School recently got their hands dirty planting a special tree to mark their school’s 50th anniversary. “This tree was planted to mark our 50th anniversary as a Tsawwassen elementary school.

About 34 (Wow!) casual birders enjoyed a gorgeous Wednesday morning wandering around Boundary Bay Regional Park (BBRP). This was the June version of our quarterly Birds on the Bay outings in BBRP.

IODE Boundary Bay Chapter hosted its annual Charity Garage Sale on Saturday, June 8 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Tsawwassen. All proceeds will go towards local charities.