Opinion

On Saturday, June 17, the SeaBus celebrated its 40th birthday.

Dear Editor: With all the so-called problems stated in the media about the lack of (space) in emergency rooms at local hospitals, why is it that about 95 per cent of people who use the emergency facilities go home the same day they go there? They can

Let’s suspend our disbelief. Let’s suppose we could have a third crossing without recourse to taxes or tolls.

Dear Editor: Two commentaries in recent days, one from the Financial Post, the other from Rex Murphy, both call into question how sincere we are about the measures needed to limit climate warming. B.C.

Dear Editor: Re: Crisis? What crisis? June 11 editorial. Your editorial makes some valid points but you make it sound like affordability is a North Shore problem.

Here we are getting ready to celebrate our 150th birthday. That’s old for a person, but young for a country. As we get ready to party we discover our mother, the U.K., and our always supportive uncle, the U.S., have become dysfunctional.

Dear Editor: Health care is crumbling under the stress of its entrepreneurship, trying to reinvent itself when it comes to caring for those who are seriously ill and the impact on the families involved.

West Vancouver town hall moans that 49 per cent of our large local taxes are collected for other governments. No problem. Let’s do a Wexit. Yes, let’s have a referendum.

Cruelty to animals in the food industry was front and centre this week after the release of a sickening undercover video from the group Mercy for Animals showing workers at a commercial poultry operation sadistically abusing the chickens under their

Dear Editor: During the decades following the rejection in 1970 of an eight-lane tunnel crossing under Burrard Inlet, construction of all types has proceeded apace on the North Shore.