Opinion

Why have four BC Liberal leadership candidates visited Kootenay West and Nelson-Creston, despite the fact both are NDP strongholds?

Re: “NDP’s Problems Run Deep,” January 26

I too felt my heart break, over and over, when I smelled the smoke, and when I heard that the Kerr Building had burnt down in the night. Immediate thoughts about the tenants’ losses and their needs raced into all of our minds. “They need shoes... They need breakfast...” was heard in the streets, in businesses, over phones, and throughout the Internet.

City Council has just spent two days doing a jigsaw puzzle. The theme of the puzzle — The City Budget.

Hearing that Nelson Hydro is hiking rates by 9.6 per cent is upsetting. Knowing it’s going to cost more to turn on the lights, fire up the computer, and cook the dinner is never easy.

This letter is intended to fill the gap concerning the publicity about the upcoming Jumbo Wild rally on Saturday.

Today my monthly OAS and CPP payments were deposited in my bank account and I noted happily that there has been an increase of $2.61 in one and $14.28 in the other giving me a total of $202.68 additional to spend during 2011.

Well, isn’t that grand? The B.C. Liberal government has chosen its own “impartial” group of four experts to advise it on the merits of the Harper Sales Tax (HST). Does anyone doubt the outcome of this government appointed panel?

Re: “Driven to the edge by beeps,” January 19

I was appalled to see your placement of an “obituary” for someone’s dog placed on the page with the other obituaries in your paper of January 19.