Opinion

"It's worth nothing but the wedding photos were on there, which are priceless.

Who needs to have kids in school when you can have 40 bucks? That was the narrative our finance minister was pushing this week when he announced how much money parents will be compensated if the teachers' strike continues into the next school year.

More than 50 Canadians are in the running to put down roots on the red planet as part of Mars One, a non-profit scrambling to raise $6 billion in seed money.

Not a week goes by, it seems, that Premier Christy Clark doesn't talk, yet again, about the vast riches that lay in B.C.'s path if only a liquefied natural gas industry gets off the ground in this province.

Dear Editor: Re: District Mulls Amalgamation, July 23. The article states that, "More recently, the city scuttled amalgamation talks over concerns the district isn't paying their share of the North Vancouver policing bill.

Canada is safe. The last time crime rates were this low the Post-It hadn't been invented and The Beatles were together.

Dear Editor: I write in response to comments quoted from Rod Clark and Guy Heywood on the front page article about the OCP and Elizabeth James' column in your July 23 edition.

So how do you like the idea of tankers carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) past Lions Bay, Bowen Island and - take note - not far off Horseshoe Bay and the western flank of West Vancouver? Clapping hands? Possibly distracted by distant oil transport

Dear Editor: Already this season we have over 100 thousand hectares in flames, more than 10 times the 2013 total and the summer is just starting. We are evacuating communities and bringing in hundreds of firefighters from other provinces.

Dear Editor: Re: Firefighters Sound the 9-1-1 Alarm. A couple of weeks ago, a man on a scooter stopped to let a fire truck with emergency lights and sirens go by and was hit from behind by a driver of a car who wasn't expecting the stop.