Opinion

"The top of the organization doesn't listen sufficiently to what the bottom is saying.

It's beyond hard to watch the level of unrest coming out of Ferguson. The Missouri town has been in a near-constant state of protest and heavy-handed police response since an unarmed black teenager was shot by police more than a week ago.

Dear Editor: On July 11, while shopping at Save-On-Foods Park Tilford, I slipped on some water and fell heavily.

The time has come for the Vancouver Aquarium to let their mammals go. Facing a rising tide of public sentiment, the Vancouver Park Board recently decided the aquarium could keep their whales and the dolphins, but forbade most breeding.

Dear Editor: TransLink does not care about our Bowen Island community. I asked them the other day what would it specifically take to implement a commuter bus from Bowen Island directly to downtown Vancouver. This has not been answered.

Dear Editor: There was a slight jolt felt on Norgate's 15th Street when the old St. Richard's Anglican church building was sold to a North Shore Muslim group.

"You actually want a slow death." Invasive plant manager Jennifer Grenz explains her preference for spraying knotweed with herbicide (from an Aug. 10 news story). "If one of those girls had gone overboard, you probably wouldn't have seen her again.

The recent disaster of the collapse of the Mount Polley mine tailings pond may force the BC Liberals to finally revisit a key policy decision made early on in its first mandate: the cutting back of environmental protection measures.

Napoleon's retreat from Moscow was bloodier, but West Van council's U-turn on its slamming of proposed liquefied natural gas tankers on Howe Sound was quicker. Councillors at the Aug.

Dear Editor: Re: Supreme Court Rules on 'Mr. Big' Stings, Aug. 6 Defence lawyer, Jay Straith, like many of his ilk, is salivating at the possibility of an overturned conviction for West Vancouver murderers Sebastian Burns and Atif Rafay.