Opinion

Dear Editor: The North Shore News has been presented with a stellar opportunity to help determine where its readers stand regarding an issue that plagues most of us in the Lower Mainland daily: increasingly restrictive traffic gridlock that in no sma

Dear Editor: I received a card in the mail last week asking for money in order to buy new equipment for our local hospital. Why our provincial government doesn’t automatically purchase that on our behalf has always surprised me.

Dear Editor: On Friday, April 21 I was in a cycling accident near Park Royal, by Winners, on the bike trail from the bridge over the Capilano River. I was bleeding from a deep laceration, lying beside my bike.

The province of British Columbia is having trouble making up its mind. After a month-long provincial election campaign we are still very much a house divided.

We are normally in the business of finding answers to questions. But this week’s provincial election has left us with fewer of the former and more of the latter.

It’s the day after. The winners are shaking off a champagne headache. The losers are calling up volunteers, asking for help retrieving lawn signs. Pundits are hoarse from telling the media “I told you so.

Dear Editor: Re: Kellie Leitch running for the Conservative leadership. She says she wants to dismantle the CBC, so that would mean she would like to get rid of such programs as The Nature of Things, The Fifth Estate and The Passionate Eye.

Dear Editor: Re: Not Worth a Dam , April 23 Viewpoint. I just finished reading (North Vancouver-based blogger) Norm Farrell’s blog where he quotes your paper’s editorial on the subject of the Site C dam.

Open letter to columnist Keith Baldrey: Re: Site C Has Passed the Point of No Return, April 26 View from the Ledge .

Whatever the outcome of the election (I’m writing this column 48 hours before the polls closed on voting day) it will likely have a profound impact on the shape of the provincial economy.