Opinion

THIS issue of the North Shore News contains our annual astrological dissection of the year ahead. For some, the concept of predicting life by star-gazing is anathema. For others, "checking their stars" is a daily occurrence.

Dear Editor: I was horrified to read that Cypress Mountain will be billing a lost snowboarder $10,000 for rescue costs - not withstanding that Cypress says they intend to donate the money to the much-deserving North Shore Rescue.

TRANSLINK has been sailing some choppy waters since the revelation that its new $25million SeaBus won't be built in B.C.

Dear Editor: Every parent I have ever met, in every area of the North Shore has a singularly unanimous complaint: traffic during pick up and drop off at school.

Dear Editor: How does one stop this stupidity? We are all blaming the guns. Yet three years ago Dr. Phil lamented on his show that 15 million American children were diagnosed as mentally ill and being prescribed drugs. Fifteen million and counting.

Dear Editor: So the District of North Vancouver mayor and council have approved the Seylynn Village development. We're now stuck with this ghastly, unimaginative homage to densification.

THE Supreme Court of Canada decision on whether a woman may wear a niqab (face veil) in court is not definitive, but it is - in the Canadian tradition - eminently fair.

Dear Editor: Beware Treo. Yes, the new Port Mann bridge is beautiful but it comes with a price. On our way to take our grandson to the Christmas tree farm we've been going to for 19 years, we crossed the new bridge on Dec. 9 in our old 1990 Jeep.

Dear Editor: Christmas is upon us once again, and I couldn't help feeling that we had lost all sense in giving and generosity. Then, I was standing at a bus stop in the middle of the last week's snowstorm when a man pulled over and offered me a ride.