Opinion

Dear Editor: Your June 23 editorial asks that the North Shore municipalities answer a few questions, referred to as Growing Pain in the headline.

Dear Editor: At three recent city council meetings, Mayor Darrell Mussatto and Coun. Craig Keating have suggested the possibility of allowing parking in lanes.

IN a dazzling glimpse of the obvious, Statistics Canada recently released numbers showing most commuters in Metro Vancouver are still getting to work in their cars.

THE United States Supreme Court dragged its country, much of it kicking and screaming, into the 21st century Wednesday morning with two rulings being celebrated by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

This was among my prayers: a piece of ground not so very large, a garden and a spring of water; above these a small patch of woods.

Dear Editor: I want to publicly thank those involved in the creation of the Spirit Trail and Kings Mill Walk in North Vancouver.

"You have to realize, for the past eight years (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad was like a scar or black eye for Iranian people around the world. He was a failed president from a foreign policy aspect but also domestically.

Dear Editor: I am disappointed that Coun. Bill Soprovich cast the deciding vote for advancing Grosvenor's development application for the 1300-block Marine Drive at the June 17 council meeting.

SOMETHING startling happened in Ottawa this week while the rest of us were busy not caring about who won the Stanley Cup. Fifteen Conservative senators broke ranks with their notoriously whipped party and voted to gut a piece of Tory legislation.

My dear friend, the poet, writer and filmmaker Meg Torwl, passed away yesterday evening at the age of 46, on the palliative care ward at Lions Gate Hospital after a long battle with cancer.