Opinion

"Why start at sharks? Why not do the same with beef, chicken, pork, lamb, fish, shellfish, mollusks, wild game, roadkill?" Coun.

Just in time for Canada Day comes the startling news from Ipsos-Reid pollsters that one in five Canadians would consider getting a maple leaf tattoo. Pollsters failed to say exactly where Canadians envisioned getting their patriotic ink.

Dear Editor: Awake, citizens! Awake before it is too late. The exorbitant density in the City of North Vancouver is battling with a fragile environment and you the people with the extra traffic, noise and pollution.

Dear Editor: A man gets four years after choking his girlfriend to death and dumping her body in a North Vancouver park (North Shore News, June 22). If that's not bad enough, he is given credit for 16 months already spent in custody.

Dear Editor: Thanks to Ms. Nancy Olewiler, TransLink Board Chair for clarifying that plans to scrap the TaxiSaver program have been put on hold (TaxiSaver Not Yet Lost, June 20, North Shore News).

EVEN as the B.C. Liberal government continues to emphasize its "Families First Agenda," it is undermining its own efforts on that front with the ongoing train wreck at Community Living B.C.

Dear Editor: Your recent story on rising ferry fares (Group Doubts Sunny Forecast for Ferries, June 24, North Shore News) raises a serious question: Isn't it time to think about, to talk about, to explore the possibility of bridge and/or tunnel links

Dear Editor: A recent edition of Ask a Cop by Sgt. Peter DeVries (Time to Choose a Name for Your Buoy, June 20, North Shore News) was short on info when speaking about rules that apply when fishing for crab along the North Shore.

Dear Editor: Once again, I find myself writing to the North Shore News. This time in regards to the front page story, West Van Fells Old Growth in Error (June 22) about the mistaken cutting of centuries-old trees near Eagle Lake.

It's time for the province to review its confounding liquor licensing laws.