Opinion

Dear Editor: This is Babe Coal (Megan Regehr) and Mitch Barnes. Thank you so much for putting the story about my situation on the front page of the North Shore News (Busker Takes on City Noise Bylaws, Aug. 5). I have received a huge response.

BELLINGHAM citizens are furious because Canadian shoppers are monopolizing . . . milk. Snatching milk from the mouths of American babies.

IT'S a sad day when Canada needs a leader from another country to nudge its policymakers in the direction of common sense.

"The [U.S.] Food Stamp Program is proud to be distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever. Meanwhile, the National Parks Service asks us not to feed the animals.

Dear Editor: There is a saying that "the law is an ass." As it concerns residential underground oil tanks, it is all too true ($90K Oil Tank Bill Sparks Warning, Aug. 8, North Shore News).

THE Canadian Medical Association's call this week for better drug coverage for lowincome households is one Canada should consider seriously, as much for economic reasons as for humanitarian ones.

Dear Editor: Regarding West Van Police Target Pack of Prowling Porsches (Aug. 10, North Shore News). Great title.

"He went and turned around and said, 'Oh! There's a bear in the house!'" Tony Webb, chairman of the North Shore Black Bear Network, on the moment a North Vancouver homeowner realized a bear had come to visit (from an August 8 news story). . . .

Dear Editor: It's unfortunate to see Liberal MLA Ralph Sultan, an MLA who many have previously considered reasonably fair-minded, abandon his reputation with a misleading cheap shot in his comments to the North Shore News (On MLA Finances, Clean Nose

Dear Editor: In response to Douglas Mason's letter (Bike Lane a Bad Plan, Says Cyclist, July 27, North Shore News), most regular cyclists such as myself prefer bike lanes to no bicycle facilities at all, which is the current situation on East Keith R