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Muni pay editorial on the money

Muni pay editorial on the money

Dear Editor: Good to see your civil service editorial on top municipal salaries in the July 20 edition, together with the front-page story in your July 18 edition on the same topic (Municipal Brass See Pay Balloon, North Shore News).
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Piping up

Piping up

Premier Christy Clark has drawn a line in the sand in the increasingly contentious debate over the Northern Gateway pipeline.
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On wages, who will manage the managers?

On wages, who will manage the managers?

Dear Editor: As a former councillor for the district of North Vancouver, I was unsurprised that pay scales were high, but I was startled that they are so high (Municipal Brass See Pay Balloon, July 18, North Shore News) It is unfortunately true that
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B.C. must protect its liquid assets

B.C. must protect its liquid assets

Dear Editor: I strongly agree with Keith Baldrey's July 20 column in the North Shore News (Dying Gov't Should Lay Off the Booze). The B.C. Liberal government should lay off the booze, but it won't, no matter how large the outcry.
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Keith a council failure

Keith a council failure

Dear Editor: In response to Mark Steunenberg's letter (On Keith, Common Sense Takes the Wheel, July 15), I can't see how changing the configuration on East Keith Road to one uphill lane in order to reduce speeding can do anything but improve the safe
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You said it

You said it

"In the immortal words of Homer Simpson, 'D'oh!' I cannot believe that the government is getting out of one of the businesses they make money at." Coun. Rod Clark expresses disbelief at the province's plan to privatize B.C.
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In schools, 'normal' not a good thing

In schools, 'normal' not a good thing

Dear Editor: Re: the letter N. Shore Schools to Return to Normal and editorial, Class Warfare, June 29. We should in no way be lulled into complacency when told we are going back to normal in education. "Normal" in B.C.
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Blood simple

Blood simple

Thanks to the hard work of organizations like the B.C.'s Centre for Excellence in HIV/ AIDS, the tide has slowly turned on a once terrifying disease. Now a provincial campaign aims to eliminate the virus completely.
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Undefended boarders

Undefended boarders

Dear Editor: I write in response to your front page story in July 13's North Shore News (District Bans Longboards on Skyline). Your photo of two young longboarders says it all.
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In Ireland, troubling echoes of home

In Ireland, troubling echoes of home

When we dream that we are dreaming, we are at the point of awakening Gangri Karma Rinpoche HOW many of us on the North Shore care about what happens in the rest of the world - about how international events have a bearing on our life here? I'm struck
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