Opinion

Dear editor: On Tuesday night my wife and I were cooking dinner when I heard a loud crunching sound.

The numbers are now out that show the reach of the province’s new housing speculation tax and I have to say they are rather underwhelming. Just 2,410 British Columbia residents are paying the tax. That’s it. A mere 2,410 people from B.C.

West Vancouver is committed to the democratic ideal of free flowing public dialogue at each and every council meeting. We commend them. And we are asking them to please fine tune that free flow.

Dear editor I was out for lunch with my friend and I took a bad fall just outside the Two Lions Restaurant in North Vancouver. I have limited eyesight and mobility and use a walker.

Dear Editor: I am writing to thank the North Shore News for the July 5 front page article on the North Shore Sewage Treatment plant. It is so important that this issue be made public.

Mike Grenby was the most agreeable, politely self-promoting journalist of my acquaintance. Grenby, who died recently in Australia where he’d lived for years, outshone Jack Benny, the gold standard for honing a public profile as a cheapskate.

Growing up as a grass-fed Prairie boy, “the ocean” would not have been high on any “things that could mortally wound me” list I would have made. Tractors? Bulls? Climate change? Sure, those all would have made the list.

The Districts of North Vancouver and West Vancouver are the latest municipalities to declare a climate emergency , which they have our praise for. Of course, they are correct. There is an emergency, whether they declare it or not.

Dear editor: I’d like to congratulate the North Shore News and reporter Jane Seyd on her July 5, 2019 story on the North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant .

As the B.C. NDP continues to cruise along in power, the party’s federal cousins appear to be lurching towards disaster. Such a scenario seemed implausible just a few years ago.