Editor: True democracy may be an unattainable ideal, but elections give ordinary British Columbians an opportunity to influence the future priorities and moral standards of our provincial government.

Editor: The NDP’s Leap Manifesto – accepted by New Democrats across B.C. and Canada as a guide for our future – sets out a sweeping plan to re-engineer our economy and lives. It seeks to end the use of gasoline and all fossil fuels. It will stop construction of pipelines and new highways. The idea that government needs to control expenditure to keep taxes low will be abandoned.

A 91Ô­´´ letter writer says the refusal of a $20,000 donation doesn’t hold water.

A Fernridge letter writer suggests another way to deal with saving trees during development.

Editor: The recent Metro Homeless Count identified 3,605 in the region as homeless.

A letter writer is with a group that opposes many of the platforms in the NDP election agenda.

Editor : Perhaps the congestion along highway one eastbound between 232 Street and 264 Street would be helped greatly in the interim by having the enforcement agencies patrolling that stretch and forcing large truck drivers to stay in their recently built designated right-hand trucking lane.

A South 91Ô­´´ woman is calling on Metro Vancouver to have tighter environmental controls on industrial firms.

91Ô­´´ resident Danny Halmo said he will make his opinion known at the ballot box.

A South 91Ô­´´ resident doesn’t want to see Brookswood/Fernridge developed in the same manner as Willoughby.