Opinion

Dear Editor: I read the article in the North Shore News April 10 regarding the new traffic calming measures put in place south of Third Street. We have lived on Second Street for 18 years and the present measures are the worst thought-out actions.

Dear Editor: This paper and many others have devoted a lot of ink to the ongoing transit vote. However, nobody is writing to laud the governing B.C.

Dear Editor: My view is that the Canadian Taxpayers Federation is being given way more credit than is warranted. To me, CTF seems to be a one-pony show, running on a monorail issue of no more taxes at any cost.

There are still a couple of months to go, but I may just owe Canada an apology. If that comes to pass, I’d probably never in my life feel better about making an apology.

Dear Editor: The recent oil spill in English Bay was inevitable along with the time delay, and finger pointing by government bodies. What we need is a bold new plan to prepare and restrict the potentially affected areas from a major oil spill.

Dear Editor: How can I put this gently? For eons now, rake-owning man (homo quietus) has been pointing out to leaf-blowing man (homo irritatus) that the leaf blower is unnecessary, nay, counterproductive to the bucolic marshalling of dead leaves into

Everyone on the North Shore was in a tizzy Friday after the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation’s Jordan Bateman dug up a decade-and-a-half-old agreement to close the Lions Gate Bridge to vehicle traffic, dedicating it for pedestrians and cyclists.

After seeing the sheen of bunker fuel spreading across English Bay and globs of toxic black oil washing up on the West Vancouver shoreline — coupled with a publicly perceived inadequate response to the incident — North Shore residents are left wonder

There appears to be some increasing chatter out there that somehow, the so-called “youth vote” will decide the outcome of the looming federal election and turf Stephen Harper from the Prime Minister’s Office. Sorry, I’m not buying that.

Dear Editor: Re: New Health Accord Urged , April 3 news story. For your readers’ benefit, I want to take this opportunity to highlight our government’s position on this important issue, which was not included in the original published article.