Opinion

"Clearly the public had something in mind they weren't sharing with the pollsters." Newly-elected West Vancouver-Sea to Sky MLA and B.C.

IF there was every any doubt that Stephen Harper's Conservatives bear zero resemblance to the long ago reformers who railed against government corruption and pork barrel politics, the expense scandal that's engulfed Senator Mike Duffy has surely put

Dear Editor: Nonsense, I said in the '60s when this nutty concept of wearing seatbelts was introduced! I'm a careful driver, and how do you expect me to keep those rambunctious boys in those straightjackets? Then, the even sillier alcohol limit breat

Dear Editor: On Feb. 17, the North Shore News published a story by Erin McPhee headlined Talk at the Top - Students Rally in Support of Peers with Mental Illness.

THE B.C. Liberals handily defeated the NDP on Tuesday while staving off the numerous polls and surveys that pointed to the party's demise.

Dear Editor: I write in response to the excellent May 12 story by Jane Seyd, Voter Turnout a Concern.

Dear Editor: Today I had the absolute pleasure of helping an 89-year-old wheelchair-bound Second World War veteran to vote. While we waited the half hour for the wheelchair-capable taxi, I learned about his life.

THE professional pollsters may have got the election result wrong, but award-winning columnist Trevor Lautens - swimming against the stream as he often does - correctly predicted a win for Christy Clark in this newspaper on May 10 (read it at nsnews.

Dear Editor: It was not without shock and disgust that I read Brent Richter's May 8 story chronicling the vulgar, hateful and ultimately racist comments of elected council member Rod Clark.

Dear Editor: I am responding to the May 1 letter from Couns. Alan Nixon and Guy Heywood, Our Nasty P3: Paying for the Poop Plant.