Opinion

Global media regularly brings us news about catastrophes, but the ones that truly grab our attention are the ones that might affect us the most.

I am writing in response to the 鈥減olitics鈥� item in the Comox Valley Record on March 9: Time to enrich poverty debate in British Columbia, by Tom Fletcher, legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press.

Thank you for your article on Ronna-Rae Leonard鈥檚 selection as candidate for the House of Commons, representing Vancouver Island North.

In response to Friday鈥檚 letter to the editor from Yvonne Kafka: Does anyone check their sources to see if a person is actually credible before publishing their slanders of a well-respected professional human being? Just for fun, we Googled the name Yvonne Kafka, and came up with this doozy 鈥�

Child poverty in West Vancouver? In that affluent municipality?

The Record鈥檚 very sensible, compassionate and well-considered editorial of March 4, Only Pharmacy in Town, and Dolly Smith鈥檚 informative letter, Club Showing Compassion, on the same page, were followed March 9 by an Under the Glacier cartoon which both trivialized the issue of medical marijuana and demeaned those in need of it.