Opinion

Dear Editor: Thank you to District of North Vancouver's Coun. Alan Nixon and City of North Vancouver's Coun. Guy Heywood for your educational letter regarding the proposed relocation of the primary waste treatment facility (North Shore News, May 1).

AS the provincial election slopes towards its final week, some social issues slipped into the campaign between the managed photo ops in hard hats.

Dear Editor: Voters in the West Vancouver-Sea to Sky riding are likely to be interested in learning more about Jordan Sturdy, the B.C. Liberal candidate.

Dear Editor: It's never been easy for a green person concerned about the environment at election time.

Dear Editor: I would like to send a warm thank you to all the incredibly generous local Realtors who continually send us their home sales flyers every week.

"Where's the boogeyman?" West Vancouver Mayor Michael Smith criticizes the tide of "instant negativity" that opposed and ultimately defeated a set of development guidelines for the Ambleside waterfront (from an April 28 news story). . . .

WEST Vancouver has dumped its guidelines for Ambleside development, doing away with a framework that could have allowed a restaurant, wine bar, rentals and a ferry terminal on that prized strip of land.

Ecclesiastes 3: 1 IT'S the nature of providence that when things swing out of balance one way, the pendulum must shift to the other. You can feel it in the air. People are ready for change on Voting Day, May 14.

Dear Editor: Trevor Carolan's March 31 column, Wanted: New Ideas in Pipeline Debate states: "Kinder Morgan had a serious leak and an oil tanker spill near Burnaby in 2007 and 2009.