Letters

Should the state and its police agents maintain computer files on where you drove last week, or a year ago? Or a personal file on you, available to employers and others, that indicates whether an officer thought you could have been charged with an of

Provincial government treats ICBC as a buffer to reduce its deficit

On the plane coming back from vacation this weekend, I happened to watch the movie Shakespeare in Love - as much a pleasure on what I'd guess was the fourth viewing as it was on the first.

The signs guiding "cruisers" off the docks to town direct them to the only two exits onto Dallas Road.

Re: "Churches take pipeline views into the pulpit," Aug. 15.

The latest offensive in the federal government's campaign to promote the bicentennial of the War of 1812 comes in that diverting one-minute film appearing on big and small screens this summer.

Longer school days are a poor idea. More time spent in the confines of a school will not really result in better outcomes for children. In fact, if you want to improve outcomes, time spent in classrooms should be reduced.

Canada's health-care system wastes $7 billion every year on diagnostic tests that aren't needed and prescriptions that don't help.

Re: "Landlords have right to set the rules," letter, Aug. 11. The statements in the letter are not supported by the facts. Landlords do not make the laws around residential tenancy issues and they do not "legally set" the rules.

Imagine you're a German asked to pay for the lifestyle of a Greek through ever-more transfers to the European Union, or through bailouts for Greek debt.