Opinion

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.

Dear Editor: I am a grandmother, OK? I am not very good at technical stuff. On a few occasions I have pressed the wrong button on my remote. Bad!! This is a definite no-no apparently.

Dear Editor: I am a parent writing in follow-up to your June 16 story regarding covered areas in North Vancouver schools (Playground Shelters a Nice-to-have: School Board).

Dear Editor: Regarding the longboarding debate: The "safe" course of action - enforcing the law - is not practical, possible or desirable.

Dear Editor: I laughed when I read Kate Zimmerman's June 2 column, Put Your Lips Together to Gather the Clan.

Dear Editor: Who'd of thunk it? It's mid-June and the City of North Vancouver hasn't mowed the grass on our street once yet this season. So I finally decided to complain.

AS the waters recede in Alberta, the cost of cleaning up after the most damaging flood in Canada is just beginning to become apparent. Premier Alison Redford has pledged $1 billion towards what might be a 10year process of restoration.

NORTH Van City Voices folks made a delegation before council Monday with a familiar message: that they believe the city is growing too dense, too fast and on a trajectory likely to far overshoot population targets in Metro Vancouver's regional growth

"I was crying under the blindfold." Ten years after her wedding photos were lost Ruchel Dacanay became a June bride for the second time in a surprise backyard ceremony organized by her husband Lemwell (from a June 21 news story).