Opinion

What's it take to get a school built? If it's in North Vancouver, apparently these days it involves selling off land of former school sites to raise the money.

Dear Editor: The column Argument Falls Short (May 14) by Todd Major contains incorrect assumptions about the need to control invasive species. Non-native plants and invasive species are not the same thing. Only a few of the nonnative plants in B.C.

Dear Editor: Re: City Asks TransLink For New Depot, June 27. I am responding to both mayors' insinuation that there are no places to build a bus depot in North Vancouver. There is one spot that would be perfect but is now being reclaimed by nature.

Dear Editor: Re: Teen Wants Warnings On Gas Pumps, June 15. We live just by Collingwood school. Twice a day we have real mayhem in our area: hundreds of cars zooming by our driveway, so it is impossible to get out.

Dear Editor: Re: District Debates Charging Stations, July 4.

Dear Editor: Hats on to the district yard of North Vancouver for scheduling tennis court repairs at Cates Park from June 15 to Aug. 15. Weather permitting apparently.

"The purposes and objects of the authority are (a) to plan, acquire, construct or cause to be constructed public passenger transportation systems and rail transit systems that support regional growth strategies, official community plans and the econo

In 2010, marijuana legalization activist Marc Emery was handed a five-year jail sentence in a Seattle courtroom for selling seeds that grow into the cannabis plant.

Dear Editor and Mayor Walton : Today I had to write a cheque for $7,044 for my 2014 property taxes which are a whopping $930 - or 15 per cent - more than last year.

We raised a glass last year when the province announced the liquor policy review. For those of us who enjoy a tipple now and again, it was high time for some sober changes to our nonsensical, prohibition-era booze laws.