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LETTER: Fish and chips, and a warm welcome for hydro workers

LETTER: Fish and chips, and a warm welcome for hydro workers

Dear Editor: I was saddened to hear of the passing of both Gary and Carol Troll of Troll’s restaurant in Horseshoe Bay (Jan. 23 and Jan. 20 respectively).
LAUTENS: Homeowner grant well past its best-before date

LAUTENS: Homeowner grant well past its best-before date

Battle stations, baby boomers! Put down that third martini –you are in danger of imminent attack by swarms of envious, property-starved millennials! If you haven’t read Stephen Price’s trumpet blast rallying the generation hopelessly doomed to shabby
EDITORIAL: Whose child is this?

EDITORIAL: Whose child is this?

The recent report by B.C.’s acting representative for children and youth into the death of 18-year-old Alex Gervais is a stunning indictment of B.C.’s child protection system that has repeatedly failed to protect the most vulnerable.
LETTER: Driver’s advice to ‘petextrians’: hurry along

LETTER: Driver’s advice to ‘petextrians’: hurry along

Dear Editor: Brendan McAleer’s Changing Speed Limits is No Quick Fix, Jan.
LETTER: Development pushing out people and jobs

LETTER: Development pushing out people and jobs

Dear Editor: Thank you for your Jan. 24 front-page story, West Van’s Population Shrank in 2016. It certainly gave an interesting perspective of the transportation challenges that have occurred over the last five years.
LETTER: Courage needed for housing crisis cure

LETTER: Courage needed for housing crisis cure

Dear Editor: Why do we need census results to find the cause of stagnant populations and gridlocked traffic on the North Shore? It’s already obvious: fear.
BALDREY: Trudeau’s broken promise is a relief

BALDREY: Trudeau’s broken promise is a relief

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has decided not to go through with one of his campaign promises, and we should all breathe a sigh of relief. Trudeau will not arbitrarily reform the federal electoral system.
EDITORIAL: Coming to our census

EDITORIAL: Coming to our census

If facts are diamonds, the market is flooded with cubic zirconia. The U.S.
Will tougher sentences help with the drug crisis?

Will tougher sentences help with the drug crisis?

Earlier this week a North Vancouver man was handed a 14-year jail sentence for dealing fentanyl, the deadly opioid that in 2016 claimed almost 1,000 lives in B.C. alone.
LETTER: Public needs a say in farmers’ market move

LETTER: Public needs a say in farmers’ market move

Dear Editor: If the West Vancouver council votes to follow a staff recommendation next Monday, Feb. 6, they will force the Ambleside Farmers’ Market to move locations before public engagement and outreach.