Opinion

The District of West Vancouver’s narrative about the Five Creeks stormwater project is: Not an item for a council decision. Just as when council doesn’t vote on routine bridge repairs or repaving a street.

Is dodgeball more than about dodging balls in gym class? It is, according to a presentation made by a trio of B.C. researchers at an academic conference held in Vancouver last week.

Dear editor: One evening, shortly after losing my dad to cancer, I did something I rarely do. I read the “what’s happening on the North Shore” email that I received from North Vancouver Recreation & Culture Commission.

After a feisty debate Monday, West Vancouver’s mayor and council members voted themselves 16 and 12-per cent raises, respectively, to the chagrin of many, we are sure.

Dear editor: Hotel’s Lavish Anniversary Nothing to Celebrate, June 7 The North Side opinion column by Paul Sullivan. Comrade Sullivan protests too much.

The B.C. forest industry is sliding into a crisis and a new law on the books has many observers worried it could make things worse, while others are hoping it has the exact opposite effect.

Halftime of the big game, and one of the key players was in desperate need of a pep talk. This is for a championship, young fella. You need to channel that energy, control your emotions. This is no time for meltdowns or mistakes.

Just one word: plastics. There’s a great future in plastics. We may have laughed knowingly at this advice when it was handed out to Dustin Hoffman’s character in The Graduate. But in the decades since then, we also readily bought into the mindset.

Dear editor: Park & Tilford Gardens is a special place for me. Growing up within walking distance of the garden, I remember family visits.

I remember my pack-a-day mother swearing off cigarettes when the doctor scheduled her for a partial lung removal. She lived for more than a decade afterward, but the damage had been done. But at least my mother had a plan to move forward.