Opinion

Re: Hydro smart meters coming this year (online editions, Jan. 18).

I would like to send a thank you in regards to my mother Joan Unterschultz’s passing the week before last. I appreciate mom’s friends for all the prayers, love and support.

With only 40 people bothering to show up recently for what I’m sure was an electrifying speech by disgraced former premier Bill Vander Zalm, it would seem common sense is finally prevailing in the drive for a recall of Kamloops-North Thompson Liberal MLA Terry Lake.

Please mark Monday evening, March 7, on your calendar. That's when School District 73 trustees will meet at Clearwater Secondary School to decide if they will ask the Ministry of Education for permission to transfer Dutch Lake School to District of Clearwater.

Is B.C. Rail a forgotten issue?

“Don’t march on Moscow.”

I’d like to comment on Keith McNeill’s excellent editorial on income inequality in the Jan. 10 issue of the Times. Currently, more than 80 per cent of the world’s population live in countries where income differentials are widening, so while it is so very true that the disparity between rich and poor are at the root of the world’s social ills, I believe the problem goes much deeper.

A welcome New Year’s resolution for our local retail businesses: swivel chairs for our helpful, kind ladies at the cashiers. They are too friendly to complain but it hurts us customers to see them standing all day, so unnecessarily. It must be a torture.