Opinion

Dear Editor: Like many North Shore homeowners, we are digesting our recently received assessment that purports to represent our property’s actual value as of July 1, 2017.

Dear Editor: As a former North Shore resident, I’m all too familiar with how unaffordable West Vancouver has become.

During the hellish Vancouver winter of 2017, my two young sons and I spent a day in the pool at the beautiful West Vancouver Aquatic Centre to escape the icy death of the -4 C weather. That’s -6 with the wind chill, by the way … nearly unlivable.

It’s been a year now since the first Syrian refugees came trickling into Canadian airports – among them, the Abdulhafiz family here on the North Shore.

Dear Editor: Thank you for giving us Chris Dagenais and The Dish. He is worth every column inch you can give him. He is knowledgeable about food and drink, offers a grounded opinion, and he is a terrific writer.

Dear Editor: I was deeply dismayed to read the comments by the two young men in the Inquiring Reporter on Jan. 6 (in response to the question Should There Be Fines For Not Clearing Snow?).

Dear Editor: Over past years, I’ve noticed the excellent photography by your staff photographers in the sports section of the North Shore News.

I got a notice in the mail the other day from a government bureaucrat who says the value of my apartment has gone up 43 per cent in a year. This is a family newspaper, so I won’t use the notorious Internet acronym that came to mind at the time.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing some tropical heat after we learned his family spent their vacation on the private island of the Aga Khan, a billionaire philanthropist and spiritual leader to 15 million Ismaili Muslims, including a great many

For a party that has a razor thin margin of error if it expects to win the upcoming election, the NDP can’t be happy about a number of developments in recent days.