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LETTER: North Vancouver RCMP officer makes a different kind of hero

LETTER: North Vancouver RCMP officer makes a different kind of hero

Dear Editor: I just want to take a minute to tell about my friend Sue Tupper, a North Vancouver RCMP officer who put on her uniform and blared her sirens in West Vancouver Wednesday to bring joy to two little boys she had never met.
LETTER: Thank you, fireworks saviours

LETTER: Thank you, fireworks saviours

Dear Editor: On Saturday, July 30 after watching the fireworks at Queen Mary School and 13th Street, I collapsed walking home and hit the pavement, causing a concussion and abrasions to my left side.
LETTER: Councillor’s stance on density unchanged

LETTER: Councillor’s stance on density unchanged

Dear Editor: I am writing to correct a quote in your Aug. 3 story Building to Begin on Lions Gate Towers . The News has suggested that I changed my position on the Larco development at the bottom of Capilano Road.
OTHER VOICES: Foreign homebuyer tax poorly implemented

OTHER VOICES: Foreign homebuyer tax poorly implemented

Kudos to the provincial government for introducing a tax on foreign buyers of residential real estate in Metro Vancouver. The tax is significant enough, and targeted enough, to help cool the negative influences of foreign capital on local buyers.
What’s your favourite Olympic event?

What’s your favourite Olympic event?

The Games have begun, and other than a diving pool the colour of lime Jell-O and the bystanders wounded by Michael Phelps’ game face, things have gone well.
LETTER: Another construction project adds to already chaotic routes

LETTER: Another construction project adds to already chaotic routes

Dear Editor: I live in the District of North Vancouver.
LAUTENS: Armchair analyzing easy ... but accurate?

LAUTENS: Armchair analyzing easy ... but accurate?

Ah, the fluffy, comfy armchair. And, less comfy but wonderfully safe, the leather-padded judge’s chair, from which justice is (judiciously, of course) dispensed.
EDITORIAL: Anti-social media

EDITORIAL: Anti-social media

Despite appearing infinitely large, the World Wide Web is getting thinner with each election cycle – as evidenced by a recent university paper penned by Stephen Harper’s former communications director.
PREST: When the car’s robot lady needs to “talk”

PREST: When the car’s robot lady needs to “talk”

Could it be that voice-activated robotic systems are just another ploy to keep women from attaining true equality? Probably. Last week my dad and I took a long road trip so that we could be there for one of the final Tragically Hip concerts.
LETTER: Oil spill biggest pipeline issue

LETTER: Oil spill biggest pipeline issue

Dear Editor: I believe that by far the biggest issue regarding the proposed Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project is the possibility of a major oil spill from an oil tanker that would devastate the beaches and the ocean in the Vanco