Opinion

THERE has been much talk lately of public processes for big developments, most of it bad, in the wake of Onni's Safeway site proposal, which the developer said it would withdraw last week after two years of back-and-forth with council.

Dear Editor: As worthy a project as the North Shore Support Recovery House is, let us look at the value of the proposed development site adjacent to Murdo Frazer Park as it is (Recovery centre to get petition vote, Dec. 5, North Shore News).

Dear Editor: Letter writer Nancy Schatz makes a poor argument when she suggests that Surrey should in effect, pay for their own damn (Port Mann) bridge (Send Not To Know For Whom The Bridge Is Tolled, Dec. 7, North Shore News).

"It is the future. In a way, the future caught up with North Van." Gordon Price, director of Simon Fraser University's city program, says there's no reason to dread new highrises as long as local governments guide smart development (from a Dec.

Dear Editor: I read with interest that Onni have pulled out of the Safeway project at 13th and Lonsdale (Safeway Development Dead: Onni, Dec. 5, North Shore News).

BOYS will be boys. And so, apparently will the grown men we elect to govern the country. Just when we thought the level of debate in parliament couldn't sink any lower, along comes an event to prove us wrong.

Dear Editor: Regarding Richardson International's proposed expansion of its North Shore grain terminal (City To Lobby Port Over Grain Silo Expansion, Oct.

Dear Editor: Regarding the "death" of the Safeway redevelopment (Safeway Development Dead: Onni, Dec.

THE two-year saga of Central Lonsdale's Safeway site redevelopment appears to have come to an abrupt end this week when the Onni group announced it was scrapping its plan.

CHRISTMAS approaches, and I muse about the Christian church, love and Internet dating. Something tells me that the last subject is more compelling for today's readers than the other two. Patience. Wait for it. All right, I bow to your begging.