Opinion

Perhaps Aesop’s most famous fable is the tale of the ant and the grasshopper. The grasshopper suffers come winter because, unlike the ants, he failed to prepare. When it comes to snow removal, we’re the grasshopper.

Dear Editor: I would like to express my concern over the consistent vitriol and repeated insults Trevor Lautens’ hurls at “spandex speeding” cyclists (most recently, his Jan. 27 column).

One circus closes down after 146 years; another, more sinister, is spawned to take its place. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will perform one last time in Uniondale, N.Y. on May 21, and that’s it. The Greatest Show on Earth is no more.

A promise is a promise – except when it’s not. The federal Liberals have reneged on their crystal clear pledge that 2015’s would be “the last federal election conducted under the first-past-the-post voting system.

Dear Editor: Thank you to the gentleman who helped me on Jan. 10 after I took a nasty fall on the sidewalk of East 12th and St. Georges. I knew it was not going to end well; I sustained a fractured upper arm.

Dear Editor: Vancouver housing bubble burst? I wonder. . . While living in Toronto some years ago, I recall seeing a land/housing comparison chart of four Canadian cities and the surrounding areas: Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver.

Dear Editor: We need to call the fentanyl crisis what it truly is. We have all lost someone to fentanyl, it seems, or know a grieving family who has lost someone.

It only received scant media attention but the speech recently given by NDP leader John Horgan on climate change could prove to be a groundbreaking moment for his party and for B.C. politics as a whole.

A factory can be shuttered for releasing harmful levels of toxicity. However, there’s no effective mechanism to regulate websites trading in noxious political discourse. Six Canadians are dead following a shooting at a Quebec mosque.

Dear Editor: Are you the person who was driving north on Chesterfield Avenue in North Vancouver, and turning east onto 16th Street on Thursday, Jan. 19 at 1 p.m.? You were alone. You were intent on what you were doing.