Opinion

Dear Editor: Re: North Van City to Consider Casino Again , July 1 front-page story. To tell you the truth, we need a casino like a hole in our head. If people want to gamble, lose their life savings, their home, break up families etc.

Dear Editor: Re: July 8 Viewpoint. I guess I’m one of those “the glass is half empty” types in that I totally agree with Paul Sullivan’s opinion piece B.C. is Real Gambling Addict in Casino Game .

It was announced with little fanfare by BC Hydro, but the federal government’s decision last week to grant two key permits for the Site C dam project may have major implications for all kinds of major resource developments across the country.

There are two major factors in the overdose epidemic that continues to ravage our province: fentanyl and shame. Fentanyl is exponentially more toxic than heroin. It’s nearly impossible to detect in pills and powders.

Dear Editor: My friend, Peter, passed away last week shortly after I arrived at his West Vancouver home.

Dear Editor: Iwas walking to church at St. Edmund’s parish at Fifth Street and Mahon Avenue on Saturday, May 14 when I tripped on the sloping curved corner at 14th Street and Chesterfield Avenue.

Dear Editor: I have been concerned about the issues around the national flag and the national anthem for a while, so the (July 24) Andy Prest opinion piece ‘Lone Wolf’ Tenor’s Fate in Hands of Twitterati finally got me off my rear end.

Dear Editor: I am a regular user of the West Vancouver seawalk and have noticed that new benches have been installed, no doubt at a substantial cost.

Sometimes we seem stuck in the 1990s. While I would argue the music was pretty great back then – grunge was “all that and a bag of chips” – this country’s relationship with its First Nations really wasn’t.

Three years ago, a mixture of fear and relief coursed through our nation when we learned the RCMP saved countless Canadians from a terrorist attack plotted by al-Qaida sympathizers.