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LETTER: Senior grateful for donations

LETTER: Senior grateful for donations

Dear Editor: Re: Senior Struggles in North Van Shelter , and Senior Out of Shelter, Thanks to Community , Feb. 17 and Feb. 19 front-page stories, respectively.
LETTER: Affordable housing and community action needed

LETTER: Affordable housing and community action needed

Dear Editor: Re: Senior Struggles in North Van Shelter , Feb. 17 story. We are a strange society. Innocent elderly are denied suitable accommodation because they are poor, powerless and ignored by our system.
LETTER: New museum will be a reality, one day

LETTER: New museum will be a reality, one day

Dear Editor: To the hundreds of donors and volunteers who supported the new Museum in the Pipe Shop project, a sincere thank you for your inspiring display of civic spirit.
BALDREY: Feeding B.C. Libs' tax-gobbling monster

BALDREY: Feeding B.C. Libs' tax-gobbling monster

To understand what drives the B.C. Liberal government more than anything, look no further than the budget it tabled last week. I’m not referring to any particular service or program, or tax or tax break. No, the B.C.
LETTER: Rethink real-estate commissions

LETTER: Rethink real-estate commissions

Dear Editor: After reading so many letters about house affordability and the continual dollar increase as a house is sold, as I see it, Realtors get a hefty sum by percentage of the sale.
LETTER: District councillor’s ‘forward thinking’ makes impression

LETTER: District councillor’s ‘forward thinking’ makes impression

Dear Editor: Re: DNV Mulls Affordable Housing , Feb. 5 front-page story. I am very impressed with the forward thinking of Coun. Jim Hanson of the District of North Vancouver.
LETTER: Home sellers’ greed fuels shadow flipping practice

LETTER: Home sellers’ greed fuels shadow flipping practice

Dear Editor: As a Realtor in Vancouver’s heated market, I was pleased to see Kathy Tomlinson’s (Globe and Mail). article.
EDITORIAL: Flann-tastic

EDITORIAL: Flann-tastic

As soon as we ran our story about Fran Flann, the 82-year-old cancer patient in a homeless shelter, our phones rang off the hook and our inboxes filled with messages from folks, both local and from across Canada, offering to pay for Flann’s hotel cos
Home sellers' greed fuels shadow flipping practice

Home sellers' greed fuels shadow flipping practice

West Vancouver - Dear Editor: As a Realtor in Vancouver's heated market, I was pleased to see Kathy Tomlinson's (Globe and Mail). article.
Rethink real-estate commissions

Rethink real-estate commissions

North Vancouver - Dear Editor: After reading so many letters about house affordability and the continual dollar increase as a house is sold, as I see it, Realtors get a hefty sum by percentage of the sale.