Opinion

Dear Editor: Treasure Those Monumental Trees, July 8 Mailbox laments the disappearance of large conifers on the North Shore. On the contrary, this is a good thing.

Dear Editor: We are finally seeing the redeployment of the Martin Mars water bomber. So much of Canada is in flames that no asset that size should have been parked until the entire firefighting budget was exceeded.

Dear Editor: Re: Maple Leaf: Show Some Pride, Eh? , July 15 Mailbox.

We’re finally getting a look at Plan B in the wake of the failure of the TransLink funding plebiscite. The B, it seems, stands for boondoggle.

It was one of those beautiful summer days in Vancouver in July.

Dear Editor: Re: Third Crossing Needed , July 17 Mailbox Unfortunately, the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation opted for status quo years ago when it decided to stay with a three-lane Lions Gate Bridge for at least the next 30 years.

Dear Editor: Aaaah, wonderful weather to enjoy and share with many visitors the beauty of the forest and creek in Lynn Canyon. The salmon and trout are withstanding 20ºC water, when they prefer no more than 15ºC.

What moves you, heart and soul? Is it, among recent top news stories, Greece? Drought? Fiery forests? Senate sleaze? The long-running drama Health Researcher Follies? Bus Stop, starring TransLink? Stock market tremors? Cracked China? Interest rates?

Is B.C.’s fresh water the new oil? Given the near-hysteria around a foreign corporation’s plan to continue to extract a relatively tiny amount of groundwater from an aquifer deep in the ground, one might be tempted to make that link.

A cruise down any of our North Shore streets at this point of the summer should give you a pretty good idea who is still watering their lawn, and who isn’t.