Letters to the Editor
by Alex Atamanenko on 21 May 2013 - 8:53am
The Conservative government tabled the Bill C-45: Jobs and Growth Act on October 18, 2012. It became law on December 14, 2012.
Bill C-45 was the second omnibus budget bill passed in 2012. The first omnibus budget bill was Bill C-38: Jobs, Growth and Long-Term Prosperity Act, which became law in June 2012. The Bills are intended to implement the provisions of the Conservative government’...
by Contributor on 7 May 2013 - 10:26am
I live in Saskatchewan, but have followed Mischa Popoff’s continuing stand for conservative principles for several years now. Although the hordes of socialist ideologues have assaulted him incessantly, this man will not back down for what sound thinkers believe to be right and sensible.
In our present state of dismay and despair, this country needs more people like...
by Barry Brandow on 5 May 2013 - 10:51am
Does the Kettle River Management Plan warrant $50,000 of tax payer money? If the past is prologue to the future then the answer is no! Why spend more money and time on a study if there is no intestinal fortitude to talk about the real problem, cows and the politics of ranching?
Source water protection is the goal of all credible water management plans; no domestic...
by Barry Brandow on 29 April 2013 - 2:35pm
It is difficult for people capable of reasoned thought to believe a Fish & Wildlife bureaucracy would wantonly destroy wildlife populations when the results are guaranteed to compromise the future of hunting and would also result in a firestorm of protest from the non-hunting public, many who are anti-hunters.
For decades Fish & Wildlife staff in Victoria have...
by Contributor on 27 April 2013 - 2:47pm
Dear Editor:
The BC Liberals under Christy Clark cannot be trusted.
BC Liberals said they would not sell BC Rail, then did anyway.
People were shocked when this government admitted it was paying the entire $6 million legal bills for Basi and Virk when they admitted they were
guilty, a complete contradiction of government policy.
Because of the BC...
by Contributor on 25 April 2013 - 1:02pm
Dear Boundary Communities
The sun is shining, the rivers are rising and the hummingbirds have returned to the valley; if you haven't already planned your garden for this year, now is the time to do so. And as you plan that garden, please consider planting a row for the Food Bank.
Lettuce or onions, beans, carrots or cucumbers, kohlrabi,...
by Contributor on 7 February 2013 - 9:02pm
I am writing this letter to raise awareness about the lack of funding for children with special needs in our communities. Did you know that Early Intervention and Supported Child Care Services have not received an increase in funding in the West Kootenay Boundary area for almost eight years?
Yet the number of children with special needs continues to increase every year! As a result,...
by Contributor on 25 November 2012 - 5:01pm
To The Editor:
You cannot run a peanut stand if you are open just 44 days a year. Yet, that is all the time the B.C. legislature has sat this year.
That is no way to run a government.
Just take a look at the HST. It was voted down in a referendum in August 2011, yet the Liberals under Christy Clark will not eliminate it until April 2013.
The HST drives up the...
by Contributor on 8 November 2012 - 4:12pm
To the Editor;
This poem was written by Nicholas Peters just after the outbreak of World War II in 1939. Peters, who lived for some years at Grande Pointe, Manitoba, Canada, had emigrated from Russia in 1925 as a boy of 10 and had seen firsthand the horrors of revolution and war in his native country.
He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942 and...
by Contributor on 15 October 2012 - 8:24pm
To the Editor:
A colorfully dressed man named Raad and his associate were making calls on people’s homes in the 7000 block of 18th Street in Grand Forks last week. When he called on my uncle he said that he was “with the Access people and was there to protect buyers from rising gas prices.”
He said he could give him a guaranteed rated for the next five years. My...
