Opinion

Dear Editor: I note that there is to be a public meeting on Aug. 20 about the (Trans Mountain) pipeline and tanker traffic. No doubt the “antis” will stack the meeting, seeking to prove that there is unanimous opposition to pipelines and tankers.

Dear Editor: I am writing in response to Coun. Lisa Muri’s recent letter, Councillor’s Stance on Density Unchanged (Aug. 14 Mailbox). It has been my experience that Coun.

Dear Editor: I just saw a fairly well-dressed woman getting empty moving boxes out of a nice SUV and dropping them in front of a not-yet-completed new house. Because it is easier than going to the recycling depot, I guess.

The province has amended B.C.’s Strata Property Act to make it easier for condo owners to band together and sell the entire property.

Despite increasingly loud calls from various quarters to stop doing it, don’t expect the B.C. Liberal government (or any subsequent government for that matter) to willingly stop using Crown corporations as cash cows.

It’s been 125 years, give or take a few days, since North Shore residents had a local government they could vote for, pay taxes to, receive services from, and gripe about. On Aug.

Dear Editor: I just want to take a minute to tell about my friend Sue Tupper, a North Vancouver RCMP officer who put on her uniform and blared her sirens in West Vancouver Wednesday to bring joy to two little boys she had never met.

Dear Editor: On Saturday, July 30 after watching the fireworks at Queen Mary School and 13th Street, I collapsed walking home and hit the pavement, causing a concussion and abrasions to my left side.

Dear Editor: I am writing to correct a quote in your Aug. 3 story Building to Begin on Lions Gate Towers . The News has suggested that I changed my position on the Larco development at the bottom of Capilano Road.

Kudos to the provincial government for introducing a tax on foreign buyers of residential real estate in Metro Vancouver. The tax is significant enough, and targeted enough, to help cool the negative influences of foreign capital on local buyers.