Opinion

Dear Editor: Re. The A-Word (North Shore News, June 8). So let me get this straight.

Dear Editor: I am a teacher in West Vancouver who is frustrated about the current situation in B.C. education. I don't enjoy walking the picket line, and I wish there was another way to ensure adequate government funding to our school boards.

Dear Editor: In response to Madeleine Adeoba's letter (Sculpture Offends, May 25), and her outrage at George Rammell's sculpture of the Capilano president: If George made that sculpture, then you can bet there is a good reason for it.

The trials of Trinity Western University are a reminder of the importance and dangers of religious freedom. TWU's law school dangles in limbo at press time as thousands of B.C. lawyers cast votes on the program's accreditation.

Dear Editor: Tired of Christy Clark's smiling face? Well, here's a reason you should be.I discovered today that the basic grant for city taxes or threshold in 2013 was $1,295,000. This year's 2014 threshold has been reduced to $1,100,000.

History has a timely and poetic way of making itself relevant.

"Meyrick helps me with my vision problem, I help him with his amputee problem." Brian Cowie discusses his tandem triathlon partnership with Meyrick Jones (from a June 1 Sunday Focus story).

"It's not what you see; it's a question of what you can make other people see.

Raising the minimum wage obstructs an efficient labour market, according to those who profit from an efficient labour market.

Dear Editor: I would like to thank the volunteer group that was clearing invasive vegetation in Mosquito Creek Park on Saturday, May 24. I was out for a morning run and wasn't able to stop and thank them personally.