Opinion

The plan unveiled by Colliers International last week for the City of North Vancouver's waterfront district is a common-sense approach to creating a destination experience for shoppers and restaurant-goers.

Dear Editor: I am disgusted about the cuts to the arts at Capilano University and, in particular, that this is viewed as a satisfactory solution to inadequate government funding. This, at a time of growth in the arts on the North Shore, e.g.

Dear Editor: OK, so maybe it was a compulsive and foolish thing to do, but something inside me just snapped.As I was crossing the sidewalk on my way to Home Depot, a fellow sitting outside Starbucks flicked his cigarette butt onto the sidewalk.

Dear Editor: Regarding the Oct. 6 letter, Watch for Lemmings: We live in the Highlands and have herds of them, especially in the fall when it gets dark. Guess what colour spandex they are wearing? Duh.

Sardine seiner boats are reportedly coming home early after their annual fishing season netted nothing in several months of looking.

Dear Editor: I was having coffee the other day on Lonsdale Avenue. Talking with a group of people about some of the nice things happening on Lonsdale, even the paving being done.Then someone wondered how long before they would be digging it up.

This week, the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled that Canada's laws against assisted suicide are constitutional. They may very well be, but it does not make them just.

Dear Editor: My wife and I are retired grandparents who have lived and raised our family here for the past 39 years. When we moved to Lynn Valley in 1974, there were no stoplights anywhere, no Karen Magnussen recreation facility.

"I think of these guys in their ivory towers looking down on this park, and they see this decrepit, old, unkempt slab of cement with all this graffiti on it: that's not what they want to look at.

Dear Editor: It would be wise for our West Vancouver municipal council to face facts when dealing with its parking issue and the replacement of parking areas with arts centres.