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Jordan Bateman: TransLink must cut costs, starting with its cops

As regional mayors and the B.C. government consider giving TransLink up to two dozen new taxation tools, it is becoming clear that there are problems within the transit authority. Whistleblowers and...

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Province Letters: Gregor Robertson, oil tankers, David Booth, policing,...

Mayor Gregor Robertson is playing to his fan base. He always seems to fail to look beyond the surface of the issue. His favoured nation of bicycle activists would struggle without the petroleum...

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Province Letters (UPDATE): Scofflaws, policing, Bizarro World, native...

Your editorial on the need to arrest scofflaws is bang on, but we need to empathize with the police. No matter what they do they’ll be chastised for it. Lay one hand on a bozo and you’ll have the likes...

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ProvLetters: Smart meters, pensions, Robson Street, cell phones, night...

One would need to be extremely naive to believe in the B.C. Hydro bosses’ story, that they used the billion dollars buying smart meters not only for our convenience to know how much electricity we use...

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Dr. Scott Hadland: War on drugs worsens our health and safety

More than 40 years after U.S. president Richard Nixon launched the global “war on drugs” — with a bill to U.S. taxpayers of more than $1 trillion spent on the criminalization of drug producers,...

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Letters: Tolls, transit fares, hockey uniforms, closed legislature, immigrant...

‘Toll everything’ cost me $263 in a month I just returned from Sydney, Australia, where “they toll them all” — freeways, bridges and even short off-ramps. For a one-month stay and an average amount of...

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Letters: Crime, Surrey, self-defence, policing, PM security, pipeline, NDP,...

Cops can’t stop crimes After reading that article regarding Newton I did not see one mention of changing of self-defence laws to allow people to carry pepper spray or Tasers or, God forbid, handguns....

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Letters: B.C. Ferries, Horseshoe Bay, Surrey politics, policing, Gregor...

Ferry route cut a done deal Governments only announces issues after they have already made the decision, so for B.C. Ferries to suggest that they will have public input by the middle of 2015 on whether...

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Letters: Site C dam, protesters, NDP, Kinder Morgan, Burnaby, policing,...

About dam time In my opinion, the Site C dam project is long overdue and the sooner it gets started, the better all around. It will be better for the environment than those ridiculous, ugly wind mills...

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Gordon Clark: We all have a stake in the police officers’ morale

Police officers have an acronym that all sensible members of the public should ponder with concern. The term is FIDO, which stands for “F— it, drive on.” FIDO refers to the sentiment officers feel when...

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