Opinion

An open letter to DNV mayor and council: I just brought my wife home from the hospital after surgery and there was no parking within two blocks of our house on 29th Street.

Remember back in the day when you could rent an apartment for $200 a month? I don’t either, but apparently, if you ask those who were there to experience it first-hand, it was definitely a thing.

For years now, ICBC’s financial “dumpster fire” has been a slow burn for the province, scorching its bottom line. Despite skyrocketing premiums, the Crown corporation has continued to bleed money.

Dear editor: Re: Moving Mountains to Save a River, Dec. 6 Friday Focus. On behalf of the Seymour Salmonid Society, I would like to thank you for your article in the Dec. 6 edition of your newspaper , Moving Mountains to Save a River.

How much do you know about the Squamish people on whose land we reside? The Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw, (Squamish people and Nation) are Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast.

One of the key differences between the current NDP government and the NDP government of the 1990s is that the current administration appears to be surer of itself when faced with a bit of heat.

Dear editor: I am the 86-year-old lady who was mugged on New Year’s Day in West Vancouver . The shock of the attack is still with me. With time I am recalling it with less pain.

Another year, another CMHC report that shows just how brutal our North Shore rental housing market is, with dangerously low vacancy rates and ever increasing rents.

Dear editor: I just read in the latest North Shore News that the City of North Vancouver is considering a four per cent tax increase again this year. [CNV Looks to Boost Tax Rates as Staff, Policing Costs Rise, Jan. 29 news story.

Dear editor: Re: Police Seek Dashcam Footage, Jan. 29 news brief. I live at the foot of St. Georges Avenue and use it as a corridor constantly to access Central and Upper Lonsdale. All of the crosswalks across St.