Opinion

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.

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.