Opinion

The letter West Van’s Tree Bylaw: Let Common Sense Prevail, Jan. 8 Mailbox has some inaccuracies which should be pointed out. The term “overgrown tree” used in the Jan. 8 article implies the tree has outlived its usefulness.

After 15 months on the job, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is embarking on a cross-Canada tour, ostensibly to reconnect with Canadians - or at least those that can’t afford $1,525 to bend his ear in private.

We welcome the news that the province is looking to help alleviate the congestion for folks trying to access Mount Seymour Provincial Park.

Dear Editor: Re: No Tickets for Icy Sidewalks , Jan. 6 news story. I agree that fines don’t really solve the problem or make icy sidewalks safer. There are more effective ways to deal with this problem.

Rafe Mair, astronomically paid battling broadcaster in the balmy days when CKNW styled itself Vancouver’s Top Dog, is in shaky health and thinks he’ll die in 2017. Mind and speech, he’s as sharp as ever. I assured him he looks fine.

Barring civil disobedience on a scale that makes it impossible for work to start, preliminary work on the Trans Mountain pipeline and expanded terminal in Burrard Inlet could begin this year.

Dear Editor: MP for North Vancouver Jonathan Wilkinson has provided a lengthy justification for the Trudeau government’s decision to approve the Kinder Morgan pipelines, but his rationalization doesn’t deal with issues that are important to many Brit

Dear Editor: Gold star to Tom Littlewood, program director at Dan’s Legacy. His (Dec. 27) letter to the editor on the opioid crisis is right on target.

Coming soon to a vacant school field near you: portables, lots and lots of portables. While much attention has been paid to the $50 million that will hire more than 1,000 teachers as a result of the interim agreement between the B.C.

To nobody’s surprise, on Tuesday the province raised the threshold for the provincial homeowners grant, thereby ensuring a sizable percentage of property owners – and voters – provincewide continue to benefit from the program.