Opinion

Apparently it's true confession time in the B.C. legislature these days. Hands up all those politicians who took a vacation with their family on the public dime that they'd like to come clean about.

Dear Editor: I write this letter as a concerned resident of the North Shore. The North Shore appears to be experiencing a Klondike-style "gold rush.

Dear Editor: In the North Shore News on Sunday, March 2 there were two letters, one from a "long term resident" and another from a resident who has "enjoyed living in the community of Lynn Valley for the past 40 years.

Dear Editor: We are getting vibes from the District of North Vancouver council that amalgamation is on the agenda. It must be election time. Form another committee, another red herring.

Dear Editor: Thank you for your recent coverage of the spill in Deep Cove ("Unexplained spill soils Deep Cove" Jan. 22).

If you're planning to get a new wireless phone contract this year, it's going to cost you more as the Big Three providers - Rogers, Bell and Telus - have all upped their rates by $5 per month since January.

Two pieces of news in the past few weeks got me thinking about a made-on-the-North-Shore plan to basically save the world - or at least my job - one tastefully done erotic film at a time.

"It's just a huge waste of time." West Vancouver Teacher's Association president Rob Millard bemoans the tests that lead to the Fraser Institute's school rankings (from a March 19 news story).

With the recent measles outbreak in the Fraser Valley and a case popping up at BCIT’s Burnaby campus linked to the Fraser Valley outbreak, the subject of vaccinations is making news once again.

The world has lost one of its most prolific - or at least visible - hatemongers. Fred Phelps, the patriarch of the Westboro Baptist Church, died in hospice care on Thursday.