Opinion

Dear Editor: Provincial law dictates/requires three steps to have an amalgamation of municipalities. 1. Both councils have to pass the exact motion to instruct staff to develop an amalgamation plan, with a joint committee to guide the task. 2.

Get out the rubber gloves and the heavy-duty cleaner. If there's truth to the allegations swirling this week about harassment and bullying in the West Vancouver Police Department, there will soon be a need to scrub a lot of muck from the walls.

At four o'clock on a recent February afternoon, Vancouver Coastal Health inspectors arrived at the North Vancouver home of Jerri Morris to serve notice that her unlicensed Happy Hearts daycare must close immediately.

Dear Editor: I totally support the effort to amalgamate the North Shore into a single municipality, for no other reason than because it just makes sense.

Dear Editor: I was amazed that "WV Offers to Take on Binning House" was a front page article (Feb. 16). Although I believe in heritage conservation, I do not believe the municipality should be paying for it.

There are the Games we watch and there are the Games we remember. Four years on, most folks would be hard-pressed to recall the scores of the blowout hockey games, or exactly who placed where on the podium.

"Not this fresh." Snowboarder Maëlle Ricker is asked if she has ever competed with a broken bone. The West Van athlete will board in the Olympics three weeks after breaking her arm (from a Feb. 9 Sunday Focus story).

"A world at the end of its tether drives us toward tasks of hope...

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While the federal budget offered thin gruel for most this week, the decision to ditch the immigrant investor program (or the buy-your-way-into-Canada program, as it was alternatively known) is a welcome move.