Opinion

Dear Editor: I received a flyer in the mail this week from my Conservative MP asking “Does the Budget Support Seniors?” My wife and I are both seniors and to our joy we have just received a combined increase of $2.

Dear Editor: We have been encouraged by the support expressed by City of North Vancouver mayor and council for our call to save the facade and entrance driveway of the North Vancouver General Hospital on 13th Street (now known as Lions Gate Hospital’

My family moved to the North Shore from East Vancouver last summer. The appeal of getting away from the constant craze of Vancouver and being closer to the serenity of mountains and forest are ultimately what brought us here.

Dear Editor: Re: Our Electoral System Befuddles , July 26 Mailbox. Letter writer Harry Mayor of West Vancouver asks for our help in the Oct. 19 federal election.

A rash of recent overdoses in the Lower Mainland connected to the drug fentanyl point to scary times for drug users. Those overdoses include three recent deaths in North Vancouver, including a young couple who were parents to a toddler.

Dear Editor: Re: Co-operation Urged to Ease Neighbours’ Construction Woes , Aug. 2 Mailbox.

Dear Editor: Re: Clean Water Not a Commodity to be Bottled , July 29 Mailbox. (Letter-writer) Bill Barrie wants to start charging Nestle higher fees for water.

The compass is a tool humans have long used to find our direction, to ensure we’re on the right path.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper officially started the election campaign last weekend, making the time between the official campaign start and casting of ballots the longest on record in over 140 years.

I was stuck in a traffic jam on Queens the other day… You heard that right. A traffic jam. On Queens. I kid you not; it was bumper-to-bumper from the Edgemont Boulevard fruit stand to the Delbrook tennis courts.