Opinion

Dear Editor: I read the story ( Off-Duty North Vancouver Cops Repair Teens ‘Fence Bowling’ Damage, April 26 ) with great interest. It always amazes me how something so negative can turn into something positive.

Dear Editor: Re: Tree Protection Bylaw Invites Disaster , May 1 Mailbox. A response to J.R. Thomson’s letter is important before the misinformation in his letter takes on a life of its own.

It’s Emergency Preparedness Week across the nation. The message is more poignant this week as residents of fire-ravaged Fort McMurray scramble to leave their homes. Here on the North Shore we are overdue for a major earthquake.

Hey, let’s have some benefit to show for West Van’s fat 6.87 per cent property tax rise. First, restore the trash cans – why were they removed? – at each littered end of the 5400-block Marine Drive.

W hat would you do if you had only 10 minutes left in your home before evacuating, possibly never coming back? Our jaws drop at the images of Fort McMurray’s people desperately fleeing the flames along a congested highway as their world literally bur

Dear Editor: I was delighted to see Graham Parkes featured in the North Shore News.

Dear Editor: Re: Prehistoric Glass Sponge Reefs Preserved , April 15 news story. I was pleased to read your coverage of the Howe Sound glass sponge reefs and of the recent announcement by the B.C.

The B.C. Liberals show no sign of dropping their public pretence that all is well in the world, and that their hold on power in this province will not end any time soon, no matter how many controversies may befall them.

The beginning of this week marked the deadline for most Canadians to file their taxes.But there’s a segment of the population unlikely to have been handing over the last shoebox full of receipts or sweating over a calculator.

Dear Editor: Scenery Slater wrote in her response (to a call from the District of West Vancouver for public input on its Waterfront Concept Plan) that there is a real disconnect between the staff at West Vancouver and the stakeholders in the arts com