Opinion

Dear Editor: I am an angry veteran dismayed by the announcement that the Liberal government is prepared to make a payment of several million dollars to a convicted terrorist.

Dear Editor: Re: Ticketing Blitz Putting Brakes on ‘Rat Run,’ July 28 front-page story . In reference to your story in regards to police ticketing “rat racers” in the Queensbury area. I’m so happy for those people on East Fourth Street.

Dear Editor: If I were to drive a 12-passenger van in British Columbia today, I would need to obtain a special licence with a written and road test. On the other hand, my current Class 5 licence can get me into a 500-horsepower supercar.

Prance on the Pier shook Shipbuilders’ Square this week as revellers danced and celebrated lives that were criminal less than 50 years ago.

Dear Editor: Does anyone else find it ironic that the District of North Vancouver is spending thousands of dollars buying and distributing new plastic garbage cans and claiming the decisions are “green”?! They are replacing perfectly adequate plastic

Dear Editor: I wish to express my disgust for the apparent inability of TransLink and the City of Vancouver to maintain an open lane for buses serving the North Shore, both West and North Vancouver.

Seeing my children try to navigate their way through various pools across Western Canada this summer has forced me to reconsider my distaste for swimming as a competitive sport, mode of transportation and method for taking my kids down a peg or two.

Dear Editor: I used Uber for the first time in Toronto recently and was absolutely thrilled at the service, convenience and price. I had become convinced by all the rhetoric in Vancouver that somehow Uber was evil.

Talk about a hazing. Metro Vancouver issued an air quality advisory this week due to the smoky, particle-laden air that arrived in the Lower Mainland courtesy of the wildfires affecting much of the B.C. Interior.

Summertime, and the livin’ is … queasy.