Opinion

To the editor: Re: "Three hot topics for the city," May 8. Kudos to Mike Howell for highlighting the importance of electoral reform for Vancouver in the current provincial election campaign.

Are you comfortable with evangelical churches holding weekly services at your community centre?

People often ask me, Matthew, what is the best exotic pet, and where can I get one? Yes, maybe I prompt them extensively, or even slip them $5 just for asking, but it is a good question and one I enjoy answering.

To the editor: Re: "Don't bet against the art gallery, April 26. A "Pyrrhic victory" indeed.

To the editor: Re: K&K, May 3. I felt it only fitting to respond to your May 3rd, 2013 K&K with the [poetry] theme being carried. Why strained story? A beautiful day On an island. Sexy filler Few find time to read Overheard on train.

To the editor: It seems rather incredible that Vancouver Art Gallery director Katherine Bartels and Mayor Gregor Robertson want to see at least $350 million invested in a new art gallery when all around us independent arts and culture institutions-th

The 24-hour news cycle doesn't favour long-term memory. The continuing fallout from the December 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, barely registered a blip in the mainstream media by the time the U.S.

To the editor: Re: "Silver lining for Courier," April 24. Congratulations on your recent newspaper awards. Well deserved. You have a great neighbourhood newspaper. Maureen Milledge, Vancouver

Nobody was happier than Vancouver-Point Grey NDP candidate David Eby when his leader Adrian Dix abandoned his principled position to wait and see on the Kinder Morgan pipeline on Earth Day and firmly came out against the project.

The 24-hour news cycle doesnt favour long-term memory. The continuing fallout from the December 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, barely registered a blip in the mainstream media by the time the U.S.