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LETTER: Local housing troubles are bad news for the province

LETTER: Local housing troubles are bad news for the province

Dear Editor: At the Metro Vancouver Alliance event on affordable housing in North Vancouver on Feb.
LETTER: Let's think about investing in our communities

LETTER: Let's think about investing in our communities

Dear Editor: Re: recent articles on home prices and unaffordability A day does not go by without an article or news item connected with the cost of housing in the Lower Mainland.
EDITORIAL: Words in the wind

EDITORIAL: Words in the wind

China has become the world leader in wind power. After earning notoriety for the thick smog over Beijing, China now builds nearly half the world’s wind turbines.
LETTER: The West ignores forces of darkness at its peril

LETTER: The West ignores forces of darkness at its peril

Dear Editor: Can somebody tell me why it took only five years to defeat imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, which had a larger, better equipped and organized military, while it will be taking much longer to defeat ISIS? In spite of all the airstrikes fr
LETTER: At CapU, art has been sacrificed to business

LETTER: At CapU, art has been sacrificed to business

Dear Editor: “It’s the creative industries, it’s tourism, it’s business, it’s legal studies.” -– CapU President Kris Bulcroft, 2016 The final art class at CapU is in honour of the president’s choice of ‘creative industries.
LAUTENS: Self interest fuels real estate Wild West

LAUTENS: Self interest fuels real estate Wild West

Who didn’t know that Vancouver real estate prices are outrageous – even possibly inciting future civil violence by young generations shut out of ever owning a home in the city of their birth? What’s new – what’s news, thanks to a print reporter who p
LETTER: Stop viewing renters as second class citizens

LETTER: Stop viewing renters as second class citizens

Dear Editor: Re: Curb Foreign Ownership to Halt Rising House Prices , Jan. 22 Mailbox. Patricia and Bill Marchant could have stated their opinion against foreign ownership without disparaging renters as “temporary occupants.
LETTER: Reaping the benefits of a wise investment

LETTER: Reaping the benefits of a wise investment

Dear Editor: All my life, I have believed that Canada was the best country in the world to live in. I have lived on the North Shore all my life and would not trade it for anything until now.
EDITORIAL: Flipping mad

EDITORIAL: Flipping mad

This week an article by an investigative Globe and Mail reporter alerted the public to a dirty little secret that many in the real estate industry are well familiar with: a shady practice known as “shadow flipping.
LETTER: Lenient response by school district sends bad message

LETTER: Lenient response by school district sends bad message

Dear Editor: I am responding to the article recently published regarding the B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation’s disciplinary report issued against Bill Reid, who remains a principal in the North Vancouver School District.