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INQUIRING REPORTER: Did you support the Ironworkers 'aerial blockade?'

INQUIRING REPORTER: Did you support the Ironworkers 'aerial blockade?'

Early on Tuesday morning seven Greenpeace protesters scaled the Ironworkers and rappelled to hang from ropes suspended underneath.
LETTER: If North Vancouver amalgamates, let's change its name too

LETTER: If North Vancouver amalgamates, let's change its name too

Dear Editor: Re: NV Residents Want Amalgamation Study, June 27 front-page story. On the topic of amalgamation of the two North Vancouver’s – yes, I say, absolutely, it can’t happen soon enough – but, with one caveat ...
EDITORIAL: Phoning it in

EDITORIAL: Phoning it in

Back in the late 1970s there was a very cheesy TV show in which one of the characters never appeared in person, only over speaker phone.
BALDREY: B.C.’s high-flying attorney general has his plate full

BALDREY: B.C.’s high-flying attorney general has his plate full

He hasn’t even been in the job for a year yet, but David Eby is already establishing himself as perhaps the dominant and most powerful figure in B.C. politics (aside from his boss, Premier John Horgan).
LETTER: Realtors staging tax revolt brings amusement and revulsion

LETTER: Realtors staging tax revolt brings amusement and revulsion

Dear Editor : I read with amusement and a little revulsion about the budding tax revolt by some angry West Vancouver homeowners ( West Vancouverites Revolt as School Tax Looms , June 8 front page).
LAUTENS: West Vancouver should not have let Klee Wyck rot

LAUTENS: West Vancouver should not have let Klee Wyck rot

The great yearn to leave great monuments. The pharaohs left the pyramids. I’d rhapsodize on, but space is painfully tight. Leap to West Vancouver Mayor Michael Smith. My nomination for his legacy monument is Klee Wyck.
EDITORIAL: Dirty laundry

EDITORIAL: Dirty laundry

The practice of money laundering at Lower Mainland casinos was so well established over the past decade, it had its own name: the Vancouver model.
OTHER VOICES: B.C. sports organizations take steps to address abuse

OTHER VOICES: B.C. sports organizations take steps to address abuse

viaSport B.C. calls for third-party committee to investigate complaints
LETTER: There's too few ambulances that serve West Vancouver

LETTER: There's too few ambulances that serve West Vancouver

Dear Editor: West Vancouver only has one Ambulance. Let that sink in. What happens when that Ambulance goes on a call? The next closest Ambulance station is Lions Bay to the West or Lions Gate Hospital to the East.
PREST: Don't bring a car to a Facebook bicycle fight

PREST: Don't bring a car to a Facebook bicycle fight

If past experience has taught me anything, a large number of people are going to read this column and get very angry about it.