Opinion

Dear Editor: In his letter to the North Shore News dated Oct.

With more than a touch of petulance - having lost a camel's-nosein-the-tent tie vote on experimental parking, pedestrian and bicycle lanes on Argyle just two weeks earlier - Mary-Ann Booth and Nora Gambioli failed again Monday to get West Van council

File this under 'things you thought you knew but didn't.

Dear Editor: I am writing in response to Malcolm Barnes Oct. 16 letter, Runners in the Dark Tempt Fate. I am one of the runners that run out of the Westview Running Room.

Dear Editor: Following Ralph Sultan's Oct. 20 Mailbox analogy, maybe Capilano University is not a "farm team" any longer, but we remain funded as one.

We have previously criticized the federal government for its heavy-handed approach in controlling what is said to media by scientists working for Canada.

Dear Editor: For decades the public in West Vancouver has been hearing the mantra "we have to revitalize Ambleside.

"They're melting. Their arms fall off and their bodies turn into goo." Donna Gibbs, research diver with the Howe Sound Conservation and Research Group, about a massive sea star die-off (from an Oct. 16 news story).

Dear Editor: I am writing in response to your recent story "Fire CapU president, says letter" published Oct. 6.

After being roused from a comfy autumn prorogue, the federal government handed down the speech from the throne Wednesday. Among the government priorities is legislation to mandate balanced budgets at the federal level "in normal economic times.