Opinion

Dear Editor: As I watch houses being demolished in my neighbourhood, I am struck by the simultaneous demolition of the gardens that once surrounded them. So many shrubs are crunched under the bulldozers. What a terrible waste.

Dear Editor: Re: Trail Users Sickened by Mass Tree Kill , March 2 front-page story.

It’s not that the planet is getting too hot, just that it’s getting too hot for human beings. Temperatures were up 1.3 C across the world in February compared to last year.

I'd like to have a grown-up, adult-only conversation in the paragraphs that follow, if you don't mind. It's about pies.

Some might be hard pressed to think of a famous Canadian female, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is asking for input to find the woman who should grace the next round of bank notes.

Dear Editor: Despite MLA Jane Thornwaite’s recent report to the Deep Cove Crier, I am not convinced of the overall merits of the B.C. Liberals’ latest “balanced” provincial budget.

Dear Editor: Overpriced housing in North Vancouver. We are currently looking to purchase a house in our community, but with the prices that we are dealing with these days we can’t afford to stay in the place we have been living for the past 25 years.

Tolling all drivers $1 every time they cross a bridge – something Delta Mayor Lois Jackson recently trumpeted – is inconvenient, ineffective and most of all, inequitable.

North Vancouver City Mayor Darrell Mussatto is becoming a one-man guardian of the environment.

“If vegetation is lost from our streets there is less to regulate urban temperatures.