Opinion

Dear Editor: So there I am cutting the grass last week with my just-sharpened push reel mower, when it hits me. Where are the honey bees? At this time of year, the clover and buttercups should be teeming with Apis mellifera.

Dear Editor: Hostility, vulgarity, racism and elder abuse are alive and well in West Vancouver. Everyone who shops at Park Royal knows all about the construction and limited parking available.

Dear Editor: As Amy Millar's May 31 letter, Dad's 'Mantrum' Sours Game, pointed out, a parent's rage at a minor sporting event is upsetting and embarrassing for everyone, but the biggest impacts are on the young athletes - children who simply want to

MOST Canadians believe they live in a democracy that two generations fought and died to protect; that their western civilization is preferable to living under despotic or totalitarian regimes.

Dear Editor: Here is a mystery. I have been trying to give away my giant bear puppet to various groups, interpreters and theatre companies. He is just too big and heavy for my little environmental puppet theatre. But nobody wanted the poor guy.

"I don't mind intelligent discourse about contrary points of view, but sticking on a button that says No More Than Four is not my idea of intelligent discourse.

Dear Editor: In 1968, North and West Vancouver, Squamish, Pemberton and Sechelt participated in a referendum. The Howe Sound school district required a "yes" vote so that local residents could attend what would become Capilano College.

FOR the third time in two weeks, we bring you a story about serious injuries sustained by longboarders colliding with vehicles - all of them in West Vancouver where the activity is banned, without exception.

WE suggested here in January that the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission had erred in recommending the creation of a new Burnaby-North Seymour riding. A Conservative-dominated House of Commons committee agrees.