Opinion

Editor: I’d like to bring to your attention the May 2011 spill of approximately 1500 barrels of oil from an Enbridge pipeline in the Northwest Territories.

Let’s assume that when everyone in B.C. gets to be finance minister for a day, a majority choose to throw a $3-billion chair through the office window to show how mad they are about the harmonized sales tax. The cleanup will take two years, but first there will be a provincial election to decide who holds the broom and dustpan. And the choices are becoming clear.

I would be amiss if I didn’t send a shout out to all the Dads with this past Sunday’s Father’s Day celebrations.

Editor: I have been a Vancouver Canuck fan for the past 40 years and I always will be.

I’m beginning to think that Mother Nature is either on steroids, or is having a mid-life crisis.

Opponents of the HST can't seem to resist making the tax sound worse than it really is.

I will admit it: I am not a fan of hockey.

The Tourism Industry Association of B.C. has struggled with the impact of the harmonized sales tax, but supports it at a reduced rate.

Editor: I would like to correct some inaccuracies in a Letter to the Editor submitted by Carlie Kearns published in the Houston Today on May 28.