Opinion

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Dear Editor: Re. Gambier Woodlots Put on Hold, July 2 I own the existing woodlot on Gambier Island. My family first came to Gambier in 1912 and I moved to Gambier from North Vancouver in 1968. Everyone said I was nuts to come to Gambier.

Dear Editor: Thank you for publishing the photo and story of the local native event held June 14 at the Squamish Nation Longhouse (page 11, Friday, July 4 edition).

Dear Editor: I think it a marvel that city council endorsed countless hours and many hundreds of taxpayers' dollars gathering citizen input via surveys and public meetings during the lengthy OCP process, only to ignore the clear wishes of the entire

"High density development inflates land values; this in turn increases re-development pressure on the more affordable older building stock. Only about 10 per cent of the city's cost of infrastructure and services is covered by development fees.

Dear Editor: Third SeaBus again? Our politicians are stale. One mayor even chairs the Mayors' Council on Transportation and what do we get? A promise for the third SeaBus that was promised for the Olympics.

Dear Editor: Re: City Spurns Amalgamation, June 18. The two North Shore entities are geographically one place. It is high time for the two to amalgamate. I see the reluctance to do this, mostly on the city side, as a job preserving tactic.

Dear Editor: Regarding Josh Labove's opinion piece in Sunday's North Shore News (Holding Tight to Fiction of a European Canada), Canada was built on the backs of immigrants who made this country what it is today.

It's been a rough week for those of us who take transit. First we learned TransLink's Compass Card system is so far behind schedule it should be renamed the Sundial. Then we had two malfunctions that crippled the SkyTrain system.

Dear Editor: Sylvia Taylor wrote a letter regarding the tax increases to which Mayor Richard Walton replied, saying the increases were only 2.5 per cent. My tax increase was 20 per cent. Could I please get a refund of 17.