Opinion

There are two major factors in the overdose epidemic that continues to ravage our province: fentanyl and shame. Fentanyl is exponentially more toxic than heroin. It’s nearly impossible to detect in pills and powders.

Dear Editor: My friend, Peter, passed away last week shortly after I arrived at his West Vancouver home.

Dear Editor: Iwas walking to church at St. Edmund’s parish at Fifth Street and Mahon Avenue on Saturday, May 14 when I tripped on the sloping curved corner at 14th Street and Chesterfield Avenue.

Dear Editor: I have been concerned about the issues around the national flag and the national anthem for a while, so the (July 24) Andy Prest opinion piece ‘Lone Wolf’ Tenor’s Fate in Hands of Twitterati finally got me off my rear end.

Dear Editor: I am a regular user of the West Vancouver seawalk and have noticed that new benches have been installed, no doubt at a substantial cost.

Sometimes we seem stuck in the 1990s. While I would argue the music was pretty great back then – grunge was “all that and a bag of chips” – this country’s relationship with its First Nations really wasn’t.

Three years ago, a mixture of fear and relief coursed through our nation when we learned the RCMP saved countless Canadians from a terrorist attack plotted by al-Qaida sympathizers.

As our neighbours are faced with the worst choices since the new Coke and Crystal Pepsi, Canada watches from between a hard place and an avalanche.

Dear Editor: Re: Lower Lonsdale BIA Counter Petition Process Rankles , July 24 Mailbox. Mr.

A columnist’s second-to-last crutch is My Amusing Family. A columnist’s last crutch is Our Cottage Holiday.