Opinion

TWO news events this week cast in stark relief the folly of Canada's drug war.

IF anything could diminish the always poignant Remembrance Day, it's the reminder of how shabbily Ottawa treats its injured veterans. Like Daniel Scott. He was incredibly badly hurt on the job - soldiering.

Perhaps jumping the gun on the season this year, Shoppers Drug Mart stores had their decorations up and Christmas music blaring on Nov. 1.

Dear Editor: This week's cycling incident on Dollarton Highway was not a one-off accident, and was entirely preventable (The Road Ahead, Nov. 4, North Shore News).

THE spat between the District of West Vancouver and B.C. Ferries over the abrupt revaluation of the Horseshoe Bay terminal has exposed flawed thinking at two levels of government.

Dear Editor: For a number of years, Mayor Darrell Mussatto and other City of North Vancouver councillors have said that no one owns their view and that their views cannot be guaranteed.

Dear Editor: I love this country and am proud of who we are as a collective people. I genuinely embrace the multiculturalism that has always, and will forever continue to shape Canada into the great nation that it is.

Dear Editor: Patricia McClintick's comments on the proposed "Eight-storey edifice" for Ambleside are typical of the senior, NIMBY, do-nothing, change-nothing crowd that has crippled development in West Vancouver for years (Eight-Storey Edifice Will F

Dear Editor: It has been 13 years since the landmark year of 1999, when a shocking total of 39 bears were reportedly shot on the North Shore. Their crime for this destruction was seeking food in human habitat.

ANOTHER week, another cyclist injured. This time, by a vehicle while riding where Dollarton Highway narrows from two lanes to one.