Opinion

The Editor: Re. "SD43 launching own back-to-class push" (The Tri-City News, Aug. 8).

The Kwikwetlem First Nation has some healing to do after recent revelations about Chief Ron Giesbrecht's hefty economic development payment that took many band members, and the wider community, by surprise.

The Editor: Re. "SD43 launching own back-to-class push" (The Tri-City News, Aug. 8).

Turning B.C. Day into Terry Fox Day would be a good idea and make the summer long weekend a holiday worth celebrating. Manitoba officially plans to dedicate its August civic holiday to Port Coquitlam hometown hero and B.C. should do the same.

The Editor, RE: "$4M proposed for park - but residents want a pool" (The Tri-City News, July 30). Coun. Brent Asmundson, you are way off base in voting against replacing Rochester swimming pool.

The Editor I am writing to express my gratitude to all of the people who came out to the Port Moody cenotaph on Aug. 3 and 4.

Besides gridlock on the roads and SkyTrain, Metro Vancouver mayors and the province are stuck breathing each other's exhaust on the path to a transit expansion referendum supposed to happen next March.

Afear of death shouldn't be what keeps people from choosing to ride a bicycle. But it might. A cyclist was killed last week in Richmond. Last Thursday, another was struck and injured by a hit-and-run driver on the Mary Hill Bypass in Port Coquitlam.

The Editor, Re. "$40/day if BCTF strike drags on" (The Tri-City News, Aug. 1).

U nder Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives, Canada's foreign policy has long been going south - literally and figuratively. Recently, conservative U.S.