Opinion

This week, the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled that Canada's laws against assisted suicide are constitutional. They may very well be, but it does not make them just.

Dear Editor: My wife and I are retired grandparents who have lived and raised our family here for the past 39 years. When we moved to Lynn Valley in 1974, there were no stoplights anywhere, no Karen Magnussen recreation facility.

"I think of these guys in their ivory towers looking down on this park, and they see this decrepit, old, unkempt slab of cement with all this graffiti on it: that's not what they want to look at.

Dear Editor: It would be wise for our West Vancouver municipal council to face facts when dealing with its parking issue and the replacement of parking areas with arts centres.

Homelessness Action Week kicked off yesterday for the eighth time in Canada.

All praise to some West Vancouver councillors for a good night's work Monday - stiffing a fool plan for Argyle Avenue, and elsewhere listening to Eden Place residents.

Dear Editor: During the pipeline debate Ms. Woodsworth of the Georgia Strait Alliance's vivid presentation has supposedly illustrated the enormous increase in the oil spill risks if we allow the increase in the tanker traffic.

Monday was a red-letter day for the North Shore, not to mention the rest of Canada.

Dear Editor: Regarding the Marine Drive corridor planning: The flaws in too much floor space, mayor and councillors, is obviously a flaw in the way bylaws are written — too open to interpretation and too lax to be enforced on the intended limits.

Dear Editor: The Sept. 24 visit of Fisheries Minister Gail Shea to the North Shore was more than a response to the letter published only two weeks before by John Fraser and Dave Brown (Feds Must Act on Cohen Report, Sept 15).