Editorial: Flying while Muslim could be a problem, June 7, 2007

While I believe it is every woman’s right to decide what she wears, whether Hijab or not, it would be arrogant racist discrimination if only people who “seem” Asian or Muslim to officialw, or those who fit some white male’s perception of a “potential terrorist profile”, were to be subjected to body scans.

The logical and fair answer is to make all travelers pass through a body scanner and avoid offending religious and cultural sensibilities by ensuring that the operator of the scanner is of the same sex as the person being scanned.
Meic Haines, Translator
Abertawe, Wales (UK)

Editorial: Taxi Mafia, May 25, 2007

It’s time to deregulate the existing license issuing system which is not providing taxi services but only permitting some people to print millions of dollars by getting free licenses from the government of British Columbia.
Poor taxi drivers and taxi users are pawns of this organized, ruthless and hawkish group (owners of taxi companies), some of them who have probably never drove a cab. If this business is in the good hands of experienced drivers, they will manage it better.
Customers will not be dragged out from each others taxi’s under the pressure of these expensive taxi licenses. Events like the Winter Olympics 2010 will not be overshadowed in the same as we saw a few years back with the total shut down of cab service at YVR and Greater Vancouver.

Jose del Ho, Vancouver
Taxi User