Opinion

When you are handed tax money and charged with spending it in the interest of the public, you can do it by either looking at the short term or the long term.

The central proposition that brought Stephen Harper’s Conservatives to office was “accountability,” but it would appear that they definitely have lost their way and are eroding both our stated and unwritten rules of politics.

Here is some prison town math to ponder (these numbers are taken directly from B.C. Corrections — the turnover rate and prisoner release numbers are the only calculations).

I am responding to a letter that was sent in from Sally-Jo Williams about childhood bullying from the March 9 paper.

Throughout the Liberal leadership campaign, Christy Clark threatened to “unleash the power of Families First” on the B.C. economy. Nobody, besides Clark, really knew what that meant, but Wednesday afternoon we found out. Clark ran as a Liberal, and that is what she is proving to be.

While his policies and perspective may have been an issue of contention for some, few could question his integrity and commitment to his constituents.