Opinion

EMPIRICAL evidence took another blow to the face this week, just as the bruise from the last one is starting to show.

Dear Editor: It is shocking that city councillor Rod Clark could use a racist slur in public and call it common practice in this day and age! Just withdrawing his comment is not enough - he should publicly apologize in this paper and take a sensitivi

MULTIPLE sparkling, titillating items battling for top spot: Gordon Wilson is a fascinating British Columbia study, a shrewd maverick whose feet stepped into a cow-pie or two - most visibly a marital one - but whose head arguably contains the sharpes

Dear Editor: You published a letter May 8 to the editor from Jim Stephenson (Green Vote a Dilemma for Some). In it, he claimed to be a "green person," and endorsed Craig Keating as "environmentally enlightened.

Dear Editor: Thank you to District of North Vancouver's Coun. Alan Nixon and City of North Vancouver's Coun. Guy Heywood for your educational letter regarding the proposed relocation of the primary waste treatment facility (North Shore News, May 1).

AS the provincial election slopes towards its final week, some social issues slipped into the campaign between the managed photo ops in hard hats.

Dear Editor: Voters in the West Vancouver-Sea to Sky riding are likely to be interested in learning more about Jordan Sturdy, the B.C. Liberal candidate.

Dear Editor: It's never been easy for a green person concerned about the environment at election time.

Dear Editor: I would like to send a warm thank you to all the incredibly generous local Realtors who continually send us their home sales flyers every week.

"Where's the boogeyman?" West Vancouver Mayor Michael Smith criticizes the tide of "instant negativity" that opposed and ultimately defeated a set of development guidelines for the Ambleside waterfront (from an April 28 news story). . . .