Re: Want to make money? Try public service, Barbara Yaffe, Feb. 18
St. Paul's Hospital has been under the siege of old age for years.
Re: Complete power failure at aging St. Paul's, Pete McMartin, Feb. 22
Re: Coquitlam man charged in hitand-run deaths of two women, Feb. 22
I have been following The Sun's coverage of the B.C. Liberal leadership race with anticipation.
B.C. voters can only hope that after the Liberal leadership race is over the people who photocopied membership forms, netted the hockey Kamloops Blazers team and purloined the pet vote won't be rewarded with positions as "key ministerial aides" in the tradition of Dave Basi and Bob Virk. As we learned from various scandals and the HST ambush, "Liberal party honesty," if not an oxymoron, is in the very least a tenuous concept.
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that within a few weeks we will have a new premier, put in place by a handful of party members, while at the same time a petition signed by hundreds of thousands of taxpayers must wait almost a year to be addressed by the government?
Re: Common-law couples who break up must share wealth, Feb. 19
Last week, as our daughter Alex was driving along Oak Street, she spotted a man slumped backward on some steps. She stopped her car, yelled for help, then she and another man began chest compressions and rescue breathing, because the victim was not breathing and had no pulse. As she and this fellow continued CPR, Vancouver police officers arrived and secured the roadway; Alex and a police officer took turns with rescue breathing, as others continued chest compressions. Within minutes, paramedics arrived and took over. They worked on this man for 45 minutes before they were able to transport him to hospital. The police officers, paramedics, our daughter and a mysterious man in green all worked tirelessly to try to save this man's life. This man, Jerome, was a homeless man who was treated with tremendous care and compassion by the police, paramedics and all who were there.
There is something wrong with this scenario. Dave Basi and Bob Virk tied up the courts for seven years, made many lawyers rich, and taxpayers have to cough up $6 million to cover their legal costs. Susan Heyes tried to take on city hall for the loss of her business when the Cambie corridor plans were changed mid-stream, received an award of $600,000, and then had it snatched away. It would seem that the "Punjabi World Order" as stated by Basi, has more clout than the hundreds of small business owners who line streets targeted by our city, and lose their livelihood.