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Inquiring Reporter: Port Metro Vancouver

Inquiring Reporter: Port Metro Vancouver

Port Metro Vancouver has had the last word after a test of wills with eagle-supporting protesters on East Esplanade.
Van's unhappy rules of engagement

Van's unhappy rules of engagement

SO, West Vancouverites, are you happy with the iron rule of the Garbage Gestapo and Trash Marxists? You may have quickly detected I'm not. You got that right. Garbage in West Van will be collected only every two weeks starting April 22.
Dear Port, spare the eagles' tree

Dear Port, spare the eagles' tree

Dear Port of Vancouver: I saw in the newspaper that you are cutting down a tree with an eagle's nest in it. Eagles live there and I am not happy that their home is being destroyed. Please don't cut down the tree.
Port in a storm

Port in a storm

WITH aggressive expansion coming to the amount of coal and grain Port Metro Vancouver exports, it's time to take a closer look at the price our lungs are going to pay.
Fighting invaders, saving our streams

Fighting invaders, saving our streams

Dear Editor: While Todd Major's articles are always informative, he is wrong to say in his Jan. 23 column, Exotic Plants Not Always Bad, that people extoll the virtues of native plants to the exclusion of all other plants.
Redraw the lines

Redraw the lines

WITH due respect to Justice John Hall, chairman of the B.C. Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission, there is a not so "difficult to think of" alternative to the creation of a Burnaby North-Seymour riding.
Armstrong editorial insightful on hero-worship

Armstrong editorial insightful on hero-worship

Dear Editor: Kudos to you for your Jan. 20 editorial regarding Lance Armstrong and the part played by those of us who willingly ignored the mounting evidence because of a deep need to keep the illusion intact. Your kind of insight is rare.
Tanker risks exaggerated

Tanker risks exaggerated

Dear Editor: Regarding your Jan. 20 Other Voices guest column, North Coast No Place for Oil Tankers: Even in this Internet age the media has enormous power to shape public opinion.
Eagles use the Esplanade nest

Eagles use the Esplanade nest

Dear Editor: I live at 151 East Keith Rd. facing south from the 15th floor. I have been watching the eagle's nest in the 200-block of Esplanade for at least five years. They certainly use it every spring.
Let's keep pushing for a vote on amalgamation

Let's keep pushing for a vote on amalgamation

Dear Editor: I was happy to see the "A word" on the front page of the North Shore News. Mayor Darrell Mussatto's comments on why it wouldn't be a good idea seem pretty lame.