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LETTER: Bargaining fails education

LETTER: Bargaining fails education

Dear Editor: It is a tragedy that the issue that takes all of the energy and attention related to public education is how to settle an industrial-age-style collective bargaining dispute in a context where nobody actually in the room is going to suffe
EDITORIAL: Caveat emptor

EDITORIAL: Caveat emptor

We bid farewell to Canada's top general next month. Lt.-Gen. Stuart Beare, after spending nearly a lifetime in uniform and three years as point man on every Canadian military operation, is leaving on an interesting note.
PREST: Who needs those robot writers, anyways?

PREST: Who needs those robot writers, anyways?

I've had just about enough of these jerk-ass robots insulting our nonartificial intelligence and trying to sneak peaks at our private human bits.
You said it

You said it

"Will it sink or will it float?" Conservative candidate for Burnaby North-Seymour and District of North Van Coun. Mike Little discusses diluted bitumen and his support - or not - of Kinder Morgan's pipeline expansion (from an Aug. 22 news story).
Should we get rid of mandatory helmet laws for cyclists?

Should we get rid of mandatory helmet laws for cyclists?

Off with their helmets! That’s been the cry from pundits who believe B.C.’s mandatory lid laws hamper interest in cycling and may clip the spokes of Vancouver’s long, long-awaited bike share program.
BALDRY: Time goes on, and still no tax break for PNE

BALDRY: Time goes on, and still no tax break for PNE

One of B.C.'s grandest and most historic traditions is up and running again, but it's not entirely clear how long it can keep going.
LETTER: Argyle rebuild not tied to land sales

LETTER: Argyle rebuild not tied to land sales

Dear Editor: Suggesting that funding for the North Vancouver school district's critical Argyle secondary seismic/rebuild project is contingent on the NVSD selling off school properties is tantamount to suggesting the provincial government is using bl
LETTER: System overwhelmed by pace of construction

LETTER: System overwhelmed by pace of construction

Dear Editor: After reading the letters published about construction woes on the North Shore I felt compelled to add my own. I too live on a street under constant construction.
LETTER: Hacker attacks a global problem

LETTER: Hacker attacks a global problem

Dear Editor: In reference to the Aug. 13 story entitled West Vancouver Shores Up Online Defences.
LETTER: Two classic books worth a second glance

LETTER: Two classic books worth a second glance

Dear editor: I agree with the reader of last week who requested more coverage of our First Nations’ rich heritage in the North Shore News. (Margo Running, Friday, July 25.