Letters to the Editor
by Letters to the editor on 24 November 2018 - 12:28pm
To The Editor:
I am truly appreciative of all the voters who have contacted me because they are trying to figure out for themselves how they might vote in this important referendum . I voted for Proportional Representation.
Why? Because I am a Green Party supporter?
No.
I grew up in the UK under both Conservative and Labour governments who ...
by Letters to the editor on 21 November 2018 - 10:52am
Don’t worry!
The Group of Twenty (G20), composed of nineteen countries (including Canada) and the European Union, will meet in Buenos Aires (Argentina) November 30th and December 1st.
By then, newspapers and media analysts will most likely tell us again that they won’t all get along on some major issues during this summit.
But please...
by Letters to the editor on 20 November 2018 - 9:14pm
To The Editor:
It is a sign of our times that the most important political decision of our time is sitting in a ballot on our kitchen table (or misplaced in our junk mail).
We have in front of us an opportunity to change the voting system in our Province. We can remain with a system that limits choice and places decision making in the hands...
by Letters to the editor on 12 November 2018 - 3:54pm
To The Editor:
BC taxpayers miss out on almost a billion dollars every year due to our government's dangerous and misguided fossil fuels subsidies; dangerous because fossil fuel expansion threatens to further degrade the health of BC's citizens and environment, misguided as it unfairly skews the market away from the clean energy economy we so urgently need...
by Letters to the editor on 8 November 2018 - 3:48pm
Dear Editor,
BC taxpayers miss out on almost a billion dollars every year due to our government's dangerous and misguided fossil fuels subsidies; dangerous because fossil fuel expansion threatens to further degrade the health of BC's citizens and environment, misguided as it unfairly skews the market away from the clean energy economy we so...
by Letters to the editor on 4 November 2018 - 4:36pm
So far, most of the discussion about Proportional Representation (PR) has focused on fairness. Without a proportional voting system, there’s no way to make every vote count equally. But there are other reasons to adopt it, arguably as valid: it would bring social and financial stability and cut waste.
In elections using first-past-the-post relatively small changes in the vote can give a...
by Letters to the editor on 4 November 2018 - 5:53am
To The Editor:
For those British Columbians who are uncertain about the choices offered in the Proportional Representation referendum, and have not yet voted, there is an alternative voting system that could well work for most citizens and most political parties.
The current First Past the Post system offers simplicity in...
by Letters to the editor on 1 November 2018 - 10:03am
Several times in our province we have had election results distorted by our current voting system (first past the post).
As a result the political landscape has been plagued by polarized politics for as long as anyone can remember and many voters find themselves voting to block something they despise and/or not having their vote represented at all.
The way out of this mess is to...
by Letters to the editor on 1 November 2018 - 6:54am
To The Editor:
As Remembrance Day approaches, I would like to pay tribute to the amputee veterans who founded The War Amps, which marks its 100th anniversary this year.
On returning from the First World War, they came together to help each other adapt to their new reality. They then welcomed the next generation of amputee veterans following...
by Letters to the editor on 29 October 2018 - 8:22pm
To The Editor:
Confused about proportional representation?
Read this.
A key ingredient in any democracy is that people choose their leaders based on their values. In our current voting system we are often forced to choose between a person or a party or to vote “strategically”. The make-up of the government often doesn’t reflect the...
