Opinion

Re: Possible Pot Roach Sends Pup to Vet, Nov. 2 story. It appears it may be some time yet before our society’s reefer madness is finally cured.

Don McBain in his (Oct. 28) letter about an oil spill concern from the Kinder Morgan project has every one of his facts wrong.

It’s official: We live in an age of distraction. Pedestrians are putting themselves on auto pilot and tuning in to their electronic devices, oblivious to hazards around them.

Re: Small Condo Triggers Big Debate at DNV Council. I have been a resident of Edgemont Villa in Connaught Crescent for 4½ years.

I am writing in response to Brent Richter’s (Oct. 28) article, Small Condo Triggers Big Debate at DNV Council.

In the article Small Condo Triggers Big Debate at DNV Council (Oct. 28), you quote Mayor Richard Walton as saying “You’re going to find that 60 or 70 per cent of the construction around Edgemont Village is going to be finished within three months.

After hearing non-stop about an LNG bonanza and the trillions of dollars it would bring the province, during the 2013 campaign, the B.C. Liberals have seen their first liquefied natural gas plant through the approval process.

Two frightening incidents at Lower Mainland schools have brought a sharp focus on what we need to know. One of them is horrific – the stabbing death of a teenaged girl and injuring of another in an Abbotsford school hallway.

The Old Frenchman said that a man is better revealed by his possessions than by anything he says, or claims to think or believe. So here is a taste of the possessions of the 12 candidates in West Vancouver’s Nov.

Dear Editor: Re: Beware the Cries of the Shrinking Middle Class, Trevor Lautens’ Oct. 7 column. I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle.