Opinion

I’m less quick than some are to play to the parochial peanut gallery about big bad CN Rail bullying our innocent little town of West Vancouver.

We could be finding our way home from Christmas parties this year not in the back of a cab but rather in the back of some Joe’s jalopy.

Dear Editor: Re: Driver’s Advice to ‘Petextrians’ : Hurry Along, Feb. 8 Mailbox. When did it become legal to perform a U-turn anywhere you want on B.C. streets? It seems to be a nasty habit of drivers on the North Shore.

Dear Editor: I recently suffered a cardiac event that sent me to the emergency room at Lions Gate Hospital. It was more difficult because of the snowstorms. Triage was not full and I was processed within 10 minutes of arriving.

ICBC is fighting back. The public auto insurance corporation is refuting its critics who portray it as being in a fiscal crisis, and it insists that while these are challenging times in the industry the situation is far from bleak.

ElectionsBC has launched an investigation into whether the donors to B.C.’s two main political parties have been breaking the rules.

Dear Editor: Re: Location of Youth Centre Next to Pub Questioned , Feb. 19 Mailbox. Brian Reidlinger’s letter to the editor on the new Foundry North Shore facility proves there is more work to do in stopping stigma for mental health in this province.

It seems as if the bar has been lowered for politicians in the last year or so. In the good old days we looked for such noble traits as a grasp of the issues of the day, good hair, and the ability look sincere whilst lying to us.

There’s Pink Shirt Day. Then there’s the North Van parents in the stands at a minor hockey game who ably demonstrated last week why we have so much work still to do.

Dear Editor: An open letter to Premier Christy Clark: Re: The (police) incident Saturday, Jan. 28 that blocked southbound traffic on the Lions Gate Bridge for hours: The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing could not handle the overflow.