Opinion

If you doubt that we are aggressively embracing the digital age, you need look no further than headlines in the business pages earlier this week. The office supplies giant, Staples Canada, is planning to close 40 of its 330 stores.

To the editor: Mark Brand is described as being someone who turns negatives into positives. He's also someone who is a master at turning a marginal news story into an enduring tome of free advertising for his enterprise.

To the editor: Re: "Save On Meats signs up "anarchists," April 5. There are multiple problems with your front-page account of Mark Brand's charitable entrepreneurship. One. The story has conflated two separate communiqués.

A couple of decades ago when I worked in Japan, I would see employees at a variety of businesses participating in group exercises every morning.

To the editor: Re: "Strathcona residents want more transparency in viaduct removal plan," March 28. I'm writing in support of the Strathcona Residents' Association position on the demolition of the viaducts.

Re: Granville, the new East Hastings. Not sure how long youve lived in Vancouver (apparently not very long), but the Granville track from Georgia to Smithe has been trash since I was a kid.

A couple of decades ago when I worked in Japan, I would see employees at a variety of businesses participating in group exercises every morning.

Statistics Canada delivered its last grade on the B.C. Jobs Plan before the election campaign begins, and its a fail. But not to worry. According to the B.C. government, thats consistent with the national trend.

To the editor: Re: "Many Vancouver 'hoods are feeling the squeeze," March 29.

To the editor: Re: "'Anti-gentrification' vandals targeting more restaurants," March 22. I had to shake my head reading about these "anarchists" (a.k.a.