Opinion

Dear Editor: I write to correct some inaccuracies and omissions presented in your July 30 editorial, Island Trust, regarding community engagement for port issues on the North Shore, port infrastructure projects and how they are managed.

Dear Editor: Re: B.C.'s Teachers Don't Deserve to go 20 Weeks Without Pay, Aug. 8. As a public school teacher greatly impacted by the current strike situation, I have appreciated Keith Baldrey's generallybalanced views of the BCTF/government debacle.

Dear Editor: The citizens of B.C. should be wary that we do not make the same mistakes that were made in the U.S.

Dear Editor: At the information meeting on the new woodlots on Gambier Island, the forestry reps did not mention the existing woodlot at all.

"Instead of being cat people, we had bikes." North Van cyclist Andrew Prenty plans to spend 10 years bicycling around the world (from an Aug. 3 news story).

Dear Editor: I totally agree with Bill Errico's letter regarding woodlots on Gambier Island (Gambier Woodlot Program 'Makes Sense,' July 24).

Dear Editor: The recent "gift" of $40 to parents with young children is almost the exact amount of the per pupil funding each child is given in the budget for a day.

An RBC study released this week concludes people aged 35 to 45 are, thanks to their mortgages, carrying dangerously large debt levels that could put them in deep trouble if interest rates go up or the housing market comes down.

So Denmark, our Canadian cities aren't good enough for you, eh? What's the matter? Unimpressed by our children's use of Lego? Not enough food trucks selling pickled herring? Wish there were more paths for your precious little Euro bicycles with your

Canada is currently playing host to the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup of soccer and will hold the FIFA Women’s World Cup next year. The nation has seen its fair share of sporting events but is the only G8 country that has not hosted a men’s world cup.