Opinion

Dear Editor: Canada imports about 650,000 barrels per day of oil from some of the most despotic and culturally intolerant countries in the world. The money we spend on this oil supports slavery, homophobia, suppresses women and much more.

Dear Editor: Re: More Pipeline Suits Launched by First Nations , Jan. 18 front-page story.

With Friday’s announcement, almost $200 million is now being spent to widen Highway 1 and revamp our local interchanges in a bid to ease traffic congestion. For drivers on the North Shore, this is a good thing.

Dear Editor: Re: Charges Don’t Add Up , Dec. 30 Mailbox. Mr. (Doug) Kay’s letter gives me an opportunity to clarify my comments regarding increases to the water and sewer utility rates approved by West Vancouver council at the Dec. 5 meeting.

Agent 6ki4nsP is one of my shrewdest agents. He also describes himself as more right-wing than Genghis Khan.

Another year, another report that finds the province is failing to meet its own guidelines when it comes to staffing at seniors care homes. Except now, we’re actually losing ground.

Chances are most of us have lost someone to cancer, heart disease or a stroke, since those are the three leading causes of death in our general population.

It’s as common as a grey day in March. At 3 p.m., the Cut begins backing up and by rush hour, east-west travel on the North Shore becomes a crawl, testing the tempers of even the most patient among us.

The province is considering raising the legal age of smoking from 19 to 21, B.C. Health Minister Terry Lake announced last week. Lake took to Twitter to ask if B.C. should follow the U.S.’s lead in raising the legal smoking age.

Dear Editor: Predictably, just as we start looking for the first daffodils to peek out, we are also used to seeing the start of the annual teacher union campaign to thwart standardized testing of students.