Opinion

The Editor, As a professional driver, I've experienced an alarming number of pedestrians and drivers who show a complete lack of safety precautions when visiting the new Port Coquitlam community centre.

When I first heard about the Evergreen SkyTrain line, I had a sinking feeling that the word Burquitlam would grace one of the stations. Sadly, I was correct.

A commentary by an assistant professor at the University of Victoria who teaches the history of disease and medicine. His book Epidemics and the Modern World was recently published by the University of Toronto Press.

The Editor, Re. “ Interested in school budgets? Have your say ” (tricitynews.com, Jan. 4). Education is a long-term investment and fundamental to the well-being of our society. Children of today will be our leaders of tomorrow.

The Editor, Re. " Letter: Hey, it's not conservation officers' fault bears are dying " (tricitynews.com). Really? I don't recall reading or hearing that other forces are destroying our bears.

For years now, ICBC’s financial “dumpster fire” has been a slow burn for the province, scorching its bottom line. Despite skyrocketing premiums, the Crown corporation has continued to bleed money.

To repeat: In 2003, a total of 44 Canadians died of SARS, and we panicked. By contrast, 8,511 of us died from garden variety flu and pneumonia in 2018, and we yawned. As Madonna would say: boring.

"A developer's priority is not about community building, it is about profit," says the letter writer.

With more than half a million Canadians currently living with dementia, its important to have conversations about dementia, says the Alzheimer Society of BC.

Human beings have taken and used too much — particularly our natural resources — and we haven’t left enough room for nature, argues the letter writer.