Opinion

Dear Editor: Thank you for giving us Chris Dagenais and The Dish. He is worth every column inch you can give him. He is knowledgeable about food and drink, offers a grounded opinion, and he is a terrific writer.

Dear Editor: I was deeply dismayed to read the comments by the two young men in the Inquiring Reporter on Jan. 6 (in response to the question Should There Be Fines For Not Clearing Snow?).

Dear Editor: Over past years, I’ve noticed the excellent photography by your staff photographers in the sports section of the North Shore News.

I got a notice in the mail the other day from a government bureaucrat who says the value of my apartment has gone up 43 per cent in a year. This is a family newspaper, so I won’t use the notorious Internet acronym that came to mind at the time.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing some tropical heat after we learned his family spent their vacation on the private island of the Aga Khan, a billionaire philanthropist and spiritual leader to 15 million Ismaili Muslims, including a great many

For a party that has a razor thin margin of error if it expects to win the upcoming election, the NDP can’t be happy about a number of developments in recent days.

As the old Joni Mitchell song goes, “You don’t know what you’ve got ’till it’s gone.” Doubtless many across the U.S. are pondering that this week as President Barack Obama leaves office.

Dear Editor: The District of North Vancouver is implementing a new garbage collection scheme in 2017. Single-family homes will be given two 240-litre wheeled carts, one for household waste, the other for organics.

It’s a perennial problem which blooms every spring in North Shore parks.

Re: West Van’s Tree Bylaw: Let Common Sense Prevail, Jan. 8 Mailbox. With respect to the West Vancouver tree bylaw, we would like to thank Mr. (Tony) Farrell for his excellent letter of Jan. 8. Mr.