Opinion

Another election campaign has come and gone, with the ritual posturing of political parties and most news media searching for anything they can portray as a conflict.

The Editor, Most people agree we need to improve our roads, bridges and transit throughout Vancouver. How to pay for them is obviously the challenge.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is making all the right moves in addressing the issue of cyberbullying in Canada but local people want him to go further.

The Editor, Once in power, most provincial policies and decisions made on our behalf end up differing little between the two main parties.

The Editor, My father and I were driving back home on the northbound lane of Pitt River Road on Monday, April 29, when a white pickup truck travelling on the southbound lane crossed over the line and headed straight for us.

Short of knocking on your front door and sticking a ballot under your nose, Elections BC has made it increasingly easier and more convenient to vote. Advance polls opened Wednesday and will remain open through Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

W hen my brother and I were kids, we used to count election lawn signs during road trips. Even back then, I was a conservative - I counted all the blues and he counted all the reds and oranges. It was our introduction to the political world.

E ver had one of those moments when what you see before you is simply devoid of any immediately identifiable logic? I experienced one recently. Coming home from work, I opened the front door, and stepped into the foyer.

I f we don't exert better control over election signs in the Tri-Cities, I'm afraid I'm going to look out one pre-election morning to see fields and fields of signs, occasionally spewing out spores that sprout more and more of them until they wave in

The Editor, Re. "Realtors want Property Transfer Tax bite eased" (The Tri-City News, May 3). Housing is unaffordable in the Lower Mainland partly because of the property transfer tax paid by buyers.