Opinion

"An hour later, I'm the only guy left." Second World War veteran Norman Kirby recalls the battle that claimed the lives of every other man in his regiment (from a Nov. 9 news story). "Someone said, 'Maybe you should just give up your house.

This week I signed up for a flu shot. What a wimp. I always considered it a sign of weakness to get a flu shot. I never got sick — my body was too strong for that, what with my young laser-armed antibodies and secret ninja lymph nodes.

The wheels are now turning on a massive plan to do something about the gridlock at the Ironworkers bridgehead.

Dear Editor: Lately a lot has been written about the traffic congestion which will be created when all those new towers have been built. There seems to be an easy solution. Build at least half of them without any parking facilities.

Dear Editor: I do appreciate the North Shore News publishing the names of candidates for district council on pages 18 and 19 of the Nov. 7 issue. I am a newcomer to North Vancouver and I have never seen a layout like this before.

Saturday’s municipal elections will either bring about utopia or we’ll all be sucked into a lawless wasteland replete with cats and dogs living together — or so some candidates tell us.

Dear Editor: On Thursday, Nov. 6, while walking home from an appointment with his eye doctor, one of our residents tripped and fell, injuring his hip. He was on the sidewalk, obviously unable to get up, and a passing motorist stopped to lend a hand.

For the past several years the energy giant Kinder Morgan has benefited in the public eye from the simple fact that it wasn't Enbridge, another big energy company wanting to do what KM wants to do: build a pipeline to carry bitumen from Alberta.

Dear Editor: I write in response to two letters to the editor, one on my use of bike racks authored by Ms. Pamela Roskell, and the other on my use of a picture of a homeless person that I tweeted out, written by Ms. Kate Black.

There's a phrase politicians spout before votes are cast: "This is the most important election of our lifetime!" We usually dismiss self-serving hyperbole, but Saturday's election - mathematically speaking - is more important than previous elections.