Opinion

“Loutet Farm is very important to me. I was born and raised in the community yet have never felt so connected, or like I had a place in the community until I began volunteering at the farm.

It’s not going to be pretty when the Big One hits.

Dear Editor: I was disappointed to read that Coun. Craig Keating has decided that a 50-metre pool on the North Shore is a B project based on the fact no one has “hassled him on the street.

Dear Editor: In September 1973, the container ship Sun Diamond sliced into the Erawan off Point Grey in broad daylight, ripping a 30-foot hole and rupturing one of the fuel tanks.

Dear Editor: While I realize Elizabeth James’ Just Asking column on North Shore light rail transit published Wednesday, April 1, in the North Shore News, was an April Fool’s hoax, I do not find it so far fetched! In fact, I would be far more favourab

Dear Editor: Re: Letter Flags Fare Evasion , North Shore News, April 1. Writer Allan Goudling states Neil McGregor committed an offense because he paid only $2.75 (rather than $9) for a two-zone public transit trip from YVR to Capilano University.

There’s no more sacred or noble exercise a citizen can perform than casting a ballot. Except when they don’t bother to do it.

The City of North Vancouver is considering an end to its 20-year gambling prohibition. This week the city heard from the public, a local health officer and North Van’s top cop during a policy committee meeting on the gambling subject.

Dear Editor: I pay my taxes and I pay my fares, and now I am being asked to subsidize those who don’t. The need for seeking additional funding for transit expansion is due in part to the loss of revenue from fare evasion.

Dear Editor: If the Green Party is serious about making a breakthrough in Canadian politics, it needs to come up with a better statement than that recently given by Claire Martin.