Opinion

If you're planning to get a new wireless phone contract this year, it's going to cost you more as the Big Three providers - Rogers, Bell and Telus - have all upped their rates by $5 per month since January.

Two pieces of news in the past few weeks got me thinking about a made-on-the-North-Shore plan to basically save the world - or at least my job - one tastefully done erotic film at a time.

"It's just a huge waste of time." West Vancouver Teacher's Association president Rob Millard bemoans the tests that lead to the Fraser Institute's school rankings (from a March 19 news story).

With the recent measles outbreak in the Fraser Valley and a case popping up at BCIT’s Burnaby campus linked to the Fraser Valley outbreak, the subject of vaccinations is making news once again.

The world has lost one of its most prolific - or at least visible - hatemongers. Fred Phelps, the patriarch of the Westboro Baptist Church, died in hospice care on Thursday.

Dear Editor: Is this a schizophrenic city? Does it make sense to have two brains controlling the same body? I know it may conjure some funny joke about the male persuasion, but it's a fact for North Vancouver.

Dear Editor: I wanted to extend my gratitude to the driver in the eastbound lane on Highway 1 near Capilano Bridge who alerted drivers of the oncoming van on Wednesday, March 12.

Dear Editor: After living with trash pickup every two weeks for a while now, all I can say is, it is a load of garbage. Terry Long North Vancouver

Dear Editor: Howe Sound may not be the wilds of East Africa's Serengeti or the pyramids of Egypt, but this part of B.C. could certainly stand shoulder to shoulder with some of the world's greatest landmarks.

"On May 19, the government's new multi-material recycling regulation will formally end the days of local decision-making over our blue-box programs and hand it over to some of the largest producers of plastic and paper packaging the world has ever kn