Opinion

Did you resolve to lose weight this New Year's but find your enthusiasm lagging right about now?

First term councillor John Douglas proposed an increase in council's pay and benefits and was trounced for it.

They woo you, compliment you and are supremely confident. Then they marry you and the real them - the narcissist - comes out.

To the Editor, With an unblinking eye on my television set, where Al Jazeera documented a deposed octogenarian despot scurrying across Egypt to his Red Sea hideaway to begin counting his billions, I listened to the BC Liberal leadership debate on CKNW radio.

To the Editor, Port Alberni City Councillor John Douglas’s notice of motion to increase pay rates for the mayor and council is ill-advised, premature, and poorly thought out.