Letters

LETTER: Can we speak about it?

LETTER: Can we speak about it?

Should Mission expect a safe and properly provisioned (equipment, staff, space) emergency room?

  • Aug 24, 2018
LETTER: Can we speak about it?
LETTER: Urgent action needed

LETTER: Urgent action needed

Has many concerns about what is happening to Hatzic Lake

  • Aug 22, 2018
LETTER: Urgent action needed
Wait times for surgery and diagnostic scans are a continuing problem in B.C., and pressure on health care system is increasing. (Black Press files)

LETTERS: Doctors speak out on surgical wait times for B.C. patients

‘Governments know they will lose private clinic lawsuit’

  • Aug 15, 2018
Wait times for surgery and diagnostic scans are a continuing problem in B.C., and pressure on health care system is increasing. (Black Press files)
Portrait of Sir John A. Macdonald (U.S. Library of Congress)

LETTER: Sir John A. Macdonald’s role in residential schools

Canada’s first prime minister was progressive for his time

  • Aug 9, 2018
Portrait of Sir John A. Macdonald (U.S. Library of Congress)
LETTER: If we want to show how inclusive Mission is, then let’s be inclusive

LETTER: If we want to show how inclusive Mission is, then let’s be inclusive

Rainbow sidewalks, flags and proclamations aren’t really needed

  • Aug 3, 2018
LETTER: If we want to show how inclusive Mission is, then let’s be inclusive
LETTER: Surely there are more important topics

LETTER: Surely there are more important topics

Is proclaiming Pride Week in Mission on top of the list?

  • Aug 3, 2018
LETTER: Surely there are more important topics
LETTER: Against proposed develment on Lougheed

LETTER: Against proposed develment on Lougheed

Style and scale of development is too ambitious for Mission

  • Jul 20, 2018
LETTER: Against proposed develment on Lougheed
Federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer. (Submitted)

LETTER: Andrew Scheer may be most underrated political leader in Western world

Former MP John Weston writes about an evening he hosted with the federal Conservative leader

  • Jul 16, 2018
Federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer. (Submitted)
LETTER: ‘I want to give back to thecommunity’

LETTER: ‘I want to give back to thecommunity’

With the election looming get ready for the oft-heard mantra from current and future candidates

  • Jul 12, 2018
LETTER: ‘I want to give back to thecommunity’
LETTER: Always impressed by Reptile Guy

LETTER: Always impressed by Reptile Guy

Saddened and sorry to see the sanctuary close down

  • Jul 12, 2018
LETTER: Always impressed by Reptile Guy
LETTER: The loss of Mission’s beautiful tree canopy

LETTER: The loss of Mission’s beautiful tree canopy

Tree cutting before development approval has occurred on environmentally sensitive Silvermere island

  • Jun 29, 2018
LETTER: The loss of Mission’s beautiful tree canopy
LETTER: Please protect our trees

LETTER: Please protect our trees

Should trees, especially mature deciduous ones, be classed as an endangered species?

  • Jun 16, 2018
LETTER: Please protect our trees
LETTER: Children need to be taught early

LETTER: Children need to be taught early

Message of diversity and inclusion is not reaching the young elementary school students

  • Jun 16, 2018
LETTER: Children need to be taught early
Abbotsford West MLA Mike de Jong goes on the attack in the B.C. legislature. Reader says political conflict and blaming doesn’t produce results. (Hansard TV)

LETTER: Old-style politics is easier to cover

B.C.’s current party system offers more conflict, fewer solutions

Abbotsford West MLA Mike de Jong goes on the attack in the B.C. legislature. Reader says political conflict and blaming doesn’t produce results. (Hansard TV)
Williams Lake Indian Band elder Mary Thomas shares her residential school survivor story during a School District 27 Orange Shirt Day celebration in Williams Lake’s Boitanio Park Friday. Monica Lamb-Yorski photo

B.C. Grade 8 student pens letter to premier on residential schools

Terrace teen writes current school curriculum underplays past violations of basic human rights

  • May 2, 2018
Williams Lake Indian Band elder Mary Thomas shares her residential school survivor story during a School District 27 Orange Shirt Day celebration in Williams Lake’s Boitanio Park Friday. Monica Lamb-Yorski photo
LETTER: Trucks, not trees, are the issue

LETTER: Trucks, not trees, are the issue

Downtown Mission needs more than just sidewalk improvements

  • Apr 20, 2018
LETTER: Trucks, not trees, are the issue
LETTER: Thanks for taking care of mom

LETTER: Thanks for taking care of mom

My mom was a resident of Mission and the Hatzic area for many years

  • Apr 15, 2018
LETTER: Thanks for taking care of mom
LETTER: The trail is trashed

LETTER: The trail is trashed

‘Clearly there is little will to do anything about it’ says writer

  • Apr 15, 2018
LETTER: The trail is trashed
LETTER: Young man made her day

LETTER: Young man made her day

Kind act has renewed faith in your generation

  • Apr 13, 2018
LETTER: Young man made her day
Equality, Indigenous equality

Equality, Indigenous equality

Letter from chiefs applauds efforts being made with federal budget

  • Mar 26, 2018
Equality, Indigenous equality