Letters to the Editor
by Letters to the editor on 25 October 2018 - 7:40pm
To The Editor:
Proportional Representation leads to better decision making in our Government. It has been demonstrated time and again that better decisions are made collectively than individually.
Proportional Representation (Pro Rep) voting ensures that voters political views are accurately represented.
This in turn ensures that all views are...
by Letters to the editor on 24 October 2018 - 9:51am
A key ingredient in any democracy is that people choose their leaders based on their values. In our current voting system we are often forced to choose between a person or a party or to vote “strategically”. The make-up of the government often doesn’t reflect the popular vote so a party may only get 10% of the seats even if 30 % or 40% of the people voted for them. Even worse, one party...
by Letters to the editor on 24 October 2018 - 7:07am
To The Editor:
The B.C. government passed an amendment to the Petroleum and Natural Gas Act on March 14, 2018 that protects corporate confidentiality. Ministry of Finance officials say the new confidentiality provision prevents them from disclosing what individual fossil fuel companies pay in royalties.
Billions of dollars of lost revenue from decreased...
by Contributor on 23 October 2018 - 9:45am
Plus ça change.....
One hundred years ago, in 1919, William Lyon Mackenzie King proclaimed that 1921 would be the last...
by Letters to the editor on 18 October 2018 - 7:56pm
To The Editor:
This upcoming election is important, actually every election is important. It is our opportunity to exercise our democratic rights. Don’t think that’s important? Look down south, there were 100 million people who didn’t vote in that election and I hope they think about that every day. Think it can’t happen here in sweet loving Canada? Look...
by Letters to the editor on 12 October 2018 - 8:29am
To The Editor:
Would you vote for a party list without candidates? Of course, you wouldn't, and neither would anybody else.
Of course, we will keep local representation under pro rep, and of course nobody will be 'appointed' an MLA unless we vote...
by Letters to the editor on 4 October 2018 - 7:24am
To The Editor:
While Prime Minister Trudeau and BC Premier Horgan are proudly congratulating themselves on building the Canadian economy with the announcement of a multibillion dollar LNG plant, the rest of us are wondering what the hell is going on here.
These two climate warrior leaders are celebrating plans for a massive carbon bomb that will...
by Letters to the editor on 18 September 2018 - 7:50pm
To The Editor:
Most Kootenay residents are familiar with the brilliant red color that the kokanee salmon turn in the fall when they are spawning in creeks and rivers in the area. But did you know that kokanee can also be found spawning along the beaches of some of our lakes? These type of kokanee are called shoal spawners, and are found scattered throughout the...
by Letters to the editor on 4 September 2018 - 2:21pm
To The Editor:
A federal election looms in 2019. One year can make a huge difference, I know, yet I'm close to one-hundred-percent sure I cannot cast a ballot for one of the three major parties.
Liberals failed to come close to our expectations when Justin got elected. He has shown himself a miserable lightweight, a poseur who knows how to project...
by Letters to the editor on 29 August 2018 - 2:02pm
To The Editor:
Dear Minister Heyman:
It was a pleasure to meet with your Assistant Deputy Ministers, Jennifer McGuire and Jim Standen, on August 22, 2018, regarding the imminent threat that zebra and quagga mussels pose to British Columbia's freshwater ecology, native fish species, infrastructure, economy, tourism, beach quality...
