Opinion

T here's a Senate vacancy available in British Columbia. It's the seat that Brian Mulroney appointee Gerry St. Germaine occupied for almost 20 years before his forced retirement, last year, at the age of 75.

Getting stuck in traffic is no longer necessary thanks to new technology. But some fear the use of cellphone signals to show congestion on Lower Mainland roads could be a privacy concern. TransLink, Transport Canada and B.C.

The Editor, Re. "Learn to swim" (Opinion, The Tri-City News, Aug. 9). Signing up our children for a few sets of swimming lessons at the local pool may not be enough when our kids hit open waters.

T he ongoing foofaraw over the Canadian Senate ignores something important. While we slag senators Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin over dubious expenses, the fact that B.C. is down a senator has been lost amid the whining. That's right: Gerry St.

The Editor, One of TransLink's talking heads justified the cancellation of free transfers between buses and SkyTrain by pointing out that London and Paris transit systems don't have them either.

Ignore for a minute that TransLink may just be the nearest punching bag for all that's wrong in the world, including transit.

N ot only is alcohol much cheaper in the United States (eleven bucks for a case of Heineken helped make a recent vacation Stateside that much better), These facts are well-known to every of-age Canadian who has travelled to the U.S.

N o Andy. We don't want to boycott the Sochi Olympics. Olympic boycotts may feel good, but they don't work. In fact, they're counterproductive.

Embattled senator Pamela Wallin is reported as saying she and the auditors don't see eye to eye on senate duties and therefore she disagrees with their conclusion that some of her expenses were dubious.

O ver the past several weeks, there has been a growing chorus of voices calling for a boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi because of the Russian government's anti-gay legislation.