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LETTER: Save our vanishing gardens

LETTER: Save our vanishing gardens

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.
LETTER: Tree girdling decision rankles another trail user

LETTER: Tree girdling decision rankles another trail user

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

EDITORIAL: Hot and hungry

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.
PREST: Something is funny about the Easter Bunny

PREST: Something is funny about the Easter Bunny

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.
Which famous Canadian woman should be on the new bill?

Which famous Canadian woman should be on the new bill?

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.
LETTER: Province's regressive taxation hurts families

LETTER: Province's regressive taxation hurts families

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.
LETTER: Housing market seriously overheated

LETTER: Housing market seriously overheated

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.
EDITORIAL: Burning bridges

EDITORIAL: Burning bridges

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.
SULLIVAN: An enterprising idea, no butts about it

SULLIVAN: An enterprising idea, no butts about it

North Vancouver City Mayor Darrell Mussatto is becoming a one-man guardian of the environment.
JAMES: Paved park strip won’t get us out of cars

JAMES: Paved park strip won’t get us out of cars

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