Vancouver Sun letters to the editor for Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019

When I worked for the B.C. public service after the 2008 recession, there were many top-down messages around reducing spending, specifically on travel.
Some of my supervisors applied this directive universally. They encouraged me to stop all spending despite knowing I was a youth counsellor working with some of the most vulnerable youth in the Lower Mainland. My spending consisted of ice cream and hot chocolate receipts for the kids (sometimes even a Subway dinner when I was pretty sure the