Opinion

Dear Editor: Re: 55+ BC Games To me, the athletes/participants, the organizers and the volunteers seemed great, but the spectator support was pathetic. I watched archery and a soccer game at my local park all four days.

Dear Editor: Some time ago, residents of East First were the (lucky) recipients of a temporary roundabout at St. Andrews and East First.

Community workshops combat election season apathy

On this Labour Day weekend I’m starting to think that employers need to rethink the whole paid vacation thing. Not, like, revoking it or anything like that. The labour movement fought long and hard to earn rights for workers.

This past weekend’s storm brought torrential rain and high winds that felled large trees and knocked out power to about 28,000 homes on the North Shore.

Dear Editor: When the Squamish Nation holds its vote to determine its position on Woodfibre LNG, it will be marking an important milestone, not only for its Nation, but possibly also for the rest of B.C.

Dear Editor: A big thank-you to all the staff of the City of North Vancouver and all the volunteers for an incredible event (Saturday, Aug. 22). Slide the City was a fun and inclusive event that made our family’s day.

It was a shockingly simple image that captured the world’s attention this week and propelled the desperation of the Syrian refugee crisis into our collective psyche. A small boy lay face down in the sand, as though he was sleeping.

Dear Editor: I commend our city for making fun, family-oriented events. However, I found it disturbing to hear music with inappropriate lyrics, ie. “F” bombs and sexually explicit language, during the Slide the City event.

Dear Editor: Re: Action on Climate Change Starts Now, Aug. 2 Mailbox Tony Sperling’s letter offers some excellent suggestions on how we can take action on climate change, and challenges us to “start taking action today.