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LETTER: Success of Ambleside important to all

LETTER: Success of Ambleside important to all

Dear Editor: Re: West Vancouver Considers BIA , July 24. A BIA (Business Improvement Area) for the Ambleside, Hollyburn, Dundarave area may be good in theory — if the purpose is in fact to improve actual business.
LETTER: Tunnel vision on bridge barriers

LETTER: Tunnel vision on bridge barriers

Dear Editor: I wanted to comment on the Iron Worker’s Memorial Bridge upgrade. I think the three-metre high fence is overkill and the esthetics of this type of design needs to be revisited. I’m really disappointed with the impacts on the views.
LAUTENS: Santa Monica future awaits in West Vancouver

LAUTENS: Santa Monica future awaits in West Vancouver

I have a daymare. Here it is. In this daymare, I see a bagman for West Vancouver’s CAAD, the Centre for Art, Architecture + Design.
LETTER: Several factors cause traffic snarl

LETTER: Several factors cause traffic snarl

Dear Editor: I read Paul Sullivan’s column Driving Very Slowly Into a Denser Future , on the traffic mayhem on the North Shore in your Aug. 7 issue.
BALDREY: Stay skeptical of political polling results

BALDREY: Stay skeptical of political polling results

When will much of the national news media finally lose its obsessive love affair with political opinion polls? For weeks now, major media outlets across the country have enthusiastically embraced every poll that is released, and have granted most of
LETTER: Unimpressed by design

LETTER: Unimpressed by design

Dear Editor: I must say I was disappointed at the lack of imagination in the design of the new waterfront art gallery! I thought it looked like a large box and more like a warehouse than an art gallery.
LETTER: Fifteen minutes of silence: is that too much to ask?

LETTER: Fifteen minutes of silence: is that too much to ask?

Dear Editor: Re: 2015 Shaping Up to be the Summer of Noise , July 19, Other Voices. I totally agree with the author of this letter. Each day, I am assaulted about 50 times per hour by idiots with locking devices beeping to lock their car doors.
EDITORIAL: Home run

EDITORIAL: Home run

The Conservatives say they’re ready start collecting data on foreign “non-resident” real estate ownership and take action if it’s making homes unaffordable here. That’s if they get re-elected, of course.
LETTER: Seniors delighted by government support - not!

LETTER: Seniors delighted by government support - not!

Dear Editor: I received a flyer in the mail this week from my Conservative MP asking “Does the Budget Support Seniors?” My wife and I are both seniors and to our joy we have just received a combined increase of $2.
LETTER: Saving heritage a group effort

LETTER: Saving heritage a group effort

Dear Editor: We have been encouraged by the support expressed by City of North Vancouver mayor and council for our call to save the facade and entrance driveway of the North Vancouver General Hospital on 13th Street (now known as Lions Gate Hospital’