Opinion

Dear editor, We have read the letter submitted by Karen Haynes (Record, May 13), and there is a lot of truth to her comments.

Dear editor, I fully support Mayor Bates in demanding a review of both of VIHA's North Island hospital decisions, on the hospital being split between two locations and on the proposed Crown Isle site.

Dear editor, With the decision by Comox Valley Regional district area directors Bruce Jolliffe, Jim Gillis Edwin Grieve to issue a building permit to Wayne Procter's Gas and Go project on the estuary, you have let down hundreds of people in order to please one person.

Court ruling on medical marijuana should spur conversation.

Dear editor, Six reasons to get rid of the HST and the carbon dioxide taxes:

Dear editor, School trustees unanimously support reducing greenhouse gases, but frustration with the Pacific Carbon Trust system has boards of education calling for change from every corner of B,C.

Dear editor, When I left Washington state two years ago I thought Comox was the perfect place to raise my family.

Dear editor, I fear that people like Derek Costantino, who voted for Stephen Harper thinking they were voting for "strong fiscal governance, smaller government and lower taxes," are going to be bitterly disappointed.

Dear editor, Cumberland Mayor Fred Bates is, of course, dead right when he questions the proposed location of the new upper island hospital.

Much as the provincial Liberals did in reversing course regarding treaty talks, they are doing the same with class sizes in public schools. In both cases, the courts forced the B.C. government to pragmatically cut their losses.