Opinion

What a world we live in, where evidence of years and years of despicable, discriminatory, sexist, racist behaviour gets a man no more than a few fines and a couple of court scuffles, but a lame phone call secretly taped by a mistress and leaked to TM

Rob Ford, Toronto’s mayor and Canada’s contribution to YouTube, is temporarily stepping away from his campaign and office after one more shocking video that shocked no one.

North Vancouver - Dear Editor: Thank you for running Jeremy Shepherd's news story about the theft of flowers from the St. Agnes memorial garden.

Dear Editor: Longboarders are suddenly the good guys? Whether the cop did a reckless manoeuvre is irrelevant; longboarders are doing something illegal. It is amazing how the culprits make the cop out to be the bad guy.

Dear Editor: Re: Cloverley, Lucas Plans Presented, April 25 I must take exception to one statement made by writer Brent Richter in his article on the proposed changes of use to the school properties on Cloverley and the Lucas Centre.

Has our political system broken down to the point where it threatens democracy itself? That grim scenario is raised in a new book that suggests the political system, at the federal level at least, has deteriorated into a cynical, out-oftouch process

Dear Editor: My thanks to the three young people who assisted me when I fell on West 15th at noon on Easter Sunday.

Don't listen to what public health officials and doctors have been warning for years. The Fraser Institute knows better.

Dear Editor: I am what I would have in my youth called an old codger (pre-PC). I might even be a little senile (ask my kids). But there is one thing I don't understand and that is this unbridled development phase we seem to be tied to.

Dear Editor: Why does the City of North Vancouver not allow casinos to be built? They are constantly whining about money woes for their pet projects.