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Election meeting turnout was 'a feat of disinterest'

Election meeting turnout was 'a feat of disinterest'

Dear Editor: With thanks to the North Shore News, May 5, I see that all of 60 people turned up at the Kay Meek Centre in West Vancouver to hear what our provincial election candidates had to say for the big day, May 14.
Inquiring reporter: Are you more engaged in this election than you were last time?

Inquiring reporter: Are you more engaged in this election than you were last time?

In the dark . . . ages

In the dark . . . ages

EMPIRICAL evidence took another blow to the face this week, just as the bruise from the last one is starting to show.
Clark's racist comment shocking

Clark's racist comment shocking

Dear Editor: It is shocking that city councillor Rod Clark could use a racist slur in public and call it common practice in this day and age! Just withdrawing his comment is not enough - he should publicly apologize in this paper and take a sensitivi
Christy Clark will win - you read it here first

Christy Clark will win - you read it here first

MULTIPLE sparkling, titillating items battling for top spot: Gordon Wilson is a fascinating British Columbia study, a shrewd maverick whose feet stepped into a cow-pie or two - most visibly a marital one - but whose head arguably contains the sharpes
Self-serving Stephenson no Green party member

Self-serving Stephenson no Green party member

Dear Editor: You published a letter May 8 to the editor from Jim Stephenson (Green Vote a Dilemma for Some). In it, he claimed to be a "green person," and endorsed Craig Keating as "environmentally enlightened.
Expropriate sewage plant site

Expropriate sewage plant site

Dear Editor: Thank you to District of North Vancouver's Coun. Alan Nixon and City of North Vancouver's Coun. Guy Heywood for your educational letter regarding the proposed relocation of the primary waste treatment facility (North Shore News, May 1).
Special support

Special support

AS the provincial election slopes towards its final week, some social issues slipped into the campaign between the managed photo ops in hard hats.
Pemberton residents question river diversion plan

Pemberton residents question river diversion plan

Dear Editor: Voters in the West Vancouver-Sea to Sky riding are likely to be interested in learning more about Jordan Sturdy, the B.C. Liberal candidate.
Green vote a dilemma for some

Green vote a dilemma for some

Dear Editor: It's never been easy for a green person concerned about the environment at election time.