Opinion

Dear Editor: On turning 80: In a few weeks I shall be an octogenarian! I still have all my marbles, I don’t need a walker and I don’t dribble when I eat. My blood pressure is a little high and I get out of breath more quickly than I used to.

Shockingly, the sun still rose over the Alberta prairies this week. The four horsemen of the apocalypse didn’t ride into town on four strong winds. The earth still spun on its axis, albeit tilted slightly to the left.

Dear Editor: Re: Something Smelly About Sewage Rules , May 3 Mailbox I would like to take the opportunity to clear up some misconceptions around biosolids and how they are used throughout B.C. In B.C.

It may be a tad premature for the B.C. government to pop the champagne bottles to celebrate its recent huge win in its long-running feud with the B.C. Teachers Federation. While the B.C.

This may be a unique reason to vote against the big interests’ Metro transit plan: It doesn’t go far enough. Universal rule: All transit systems stimulate the authorities’ Stalinism.

In February 1978 someone took a chance on me and they opened a door to the best job I could have ever hoped for. That was when I was hired as a photographer at the North Shore News. I was young, inexperienced and very keen.

Dear Editor: Daily we hear and see bad, sad things around us. So it is especially wonderful to know that there are still some honest kind people here on the North Shore. One such person is Cindy.

Dear Editor: To those upset with TransLink executive salaries, unwelcome densification, and/or squandered tax revenue, please know this: voting No in the transit plebiscite will not solve these issues.

Dear Editor: After watching the April 20 District of North Vancouver council meeting on the proposed development from Polygon to redevelop Mountain Court in Lynn Valley, I was horrified by some council members’ comments and concerns. Thank you Coun.

The federal government squared off again with defence lawyers this week in the Omar Khadr case — this time to ask a Canadian judge not to let Khadr out of jail pending an appeal of his case in the U.S.