Opinion

Dear Editor: Friday morning was much like any other. Eat breakfast, read the newspaper, walk the dog. As I left the house, I saw two skunks waddle rather quickly toward me from our neighbour's yard. One of the skunks had a jam jar stuck on his head.

"The mom was there tapping the baby and shuffling the baby around trying to keep the eagle away." Reader Debbie Martin witnesses a seal pup being born amid a bald eagle attack (from a July 20 news story).

In the July 20 opinion piece by Josh Labove (Holding Tight to Fiction of a European Canada) , he maligns Putting Canada First, without knowing much about our organization.

Over our nation's first century, Canada's attitude toward gays and lesbians was moronic enough to make hydrogen seem sparse. A great writer once opined that the two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

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Dear Editor: Re. Gambier Woodlots Put on Hold, July 2 I own the existing woodlot on Gambier Island. My family first came to Gambier in 1912 and I moved to Gambier from North Vancouver in 1968. Everyone said I was nuts to come to Gambier.

Dear Editor: Thank you for publishing the photo and story of the local native event held June 14 at the Squamish Nation Longhouse (page 11, Friday, July 4 edition).

Dear Editor: I think it a marvel that city council endorsed countless hours and many hundreds of taxpayers' dollars gathering citizen input via surveys and public meetings during the lengthy OCP process, only to ignore the clear wishes of the entire

"High density development inflates land values; this in turn increases re-development pressure on the more affordable older building stock. Only about 10 per cent of the city's cost of infrastructure and services is covered by development fees.

Dear Editor: Third SeaBus again? Our politicians are stale. One mayor even chairs the Mayors' Council on Transportation and what do we get? A promise for the third SeaBus that was promised for the Olympics.