Letters

Bye, Mr. Premier. Wish I could think of something nice to say, you having been the premier for nine long years now. But I can't. Social conditions have worsened significantly under your leadership.

I know a lot of people who have visited Victoria and are fascinated by the idea of moving here.

Chelsea Clinton, daughter of a former U.S. president and the current secretary of state, is getting married today to Marc Mezvinsky and The Daily News in New York is guessing the nuptials will cost around $3 million.

The giant hogweed articles are becoming more alarmist and sensational. As a gardener/landscaper with experience in this region over the past 40 years, I have never come across the true giant hogweed. It may exist here, as an escapee from a garden.

Please, fellow Victorians, don't wait until a toxic 15-foot giant hogweed towers over your backyard.

Oh, for a crystal ball. British Columbia's political scene is going to be fascinating in coming months, with more twists and turns than we've seen in years. Blame -- or credit, depending on your point of view -- the harmonized sales tax.

Not that many weeks ago, few people would have given the petition against the harmonized sales tax much of a chance.

Public awareness campaign crucial for explaining new tax, Hansen says

Through a combination of butchery and suffocation, Allan Schoenborn murdered his three little children in Merritt, traumatizing an entire community and forcing the entire province to ponder a horror.

Some British Columbians are looking pensively across the Rockies and wondering if the brush fire that started on the other side late last year can spread. The Wildrose Alliance was a curiosity in Alberta politics.