Opinion

Dear Editor: MP for North Vancouver Jonathan Wilkinson has provided a lengthy justification for the Trudeau government’s decision to approve the Kinder Morgan pipelines, but his rationalization doesn’t deal with issues that are important to many Brit

Dear Editor: Gold star to Tom Littlewood, program director at Dan’s Legacy. His (Dec. 27) letter to the editor on the opioid crisis is right on target.

Coming soon to a vacant school field near you: portables, lots and lots of portables. While much attention has been paid to the $50 million that will hire more than 1,000 teachers as a result of the interim agreement between the B.C.

To nobody’s surprise, on Tuesday the province raised the threshold for the provincial homeowners grant, thereby ensuring a sizable percentage of property owners – and voters – provincewide continue to benefit from the program.

Dear Editor: I would like to give a big thank-you to Andrew, the gentleman who helped me when I fell at Third Street and Lonsdale Avenue on Dec. 17, and also to the firemen and paramedics who attended. Thank you, thank you.

Dear Editor: Tree-hugging: misguided principles in West Vancouver? Along with many others, the wind and snowstorms knocked out our power this past week — for more than 24 hours.

Predictions of the sky falling over Seattle, Wash. may have been slightly overstated. We were told restaurants would close, the city would be impoverished, and cats and dogs would cohabitate following the introduction of Seattle’s $15 minimum wage.

New Year’s resolutions can be tricky to choose, let alone keep, but sometimes inspiration tips onto you and pins you to the floor like a stylish and affordable Ikea dresser.

Snowmageddon has gripped the woefully underprepared Lower Mainland for a month now. Freezing temperatures have turned streets and sidewalks into sheets of ice, making for a perlious walk for all, including seniors and people with disabilities.

It takes a lot to get me going these days, but the approval of a new home for the North Vancouver museum on Esplanade has me bouncing around like a little kid on candy.