Opinion

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.

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.

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.

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’

My family moved to the North Shore from East Vancouver last summer. The appeal of getting away from the constant craze of Vancouver and being closer to the serenity of mountains and forest are ultimately what brought us here.

Dear Editor: Re: Our Electoral System Befuddles , July 26 Mailbox. Letter writer Harry Mayor of West Vancouver asks for our help in the Oct. 19 federal election.

A rash of recent overdoses in the Lower Mainland connected to the drug fentanyl point to scary times for drug users. Those overdoses include three recent deaths in North Vancouver, including a young couple who were parents to a toddler.

Dear Editor: Re: Co-operation Urged to Ease Neighbours’ Construction Woes , Aug. 2 Mailbox.

Dear Editor: Re: Clean Water Not a Commodity to be Bottled , July 29 Mailbox. (Letter-writer) Bill Barrie wants to start charging Nestle higher fees for water.

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