Opinion

Dear Editor: Mayor and Council: Why, oh why, cannot you leave well enough alone? West Vancouver is so blessed with a beautiful natural waterfront, why turn it into a semi commercial waterfront? As the saying goes, give a child a toy in a box and they

Dear Editor: Regarding your article "Keating to Halt Council Pay During Election," April 14, we have to say that it's about time. Coun. Keating opened his campaign office on Feb. 2 and has been very busy on Facebook, Twitter and door to door. On Feb.

"I don't think the Port of Metro Vancouver . . . should become a major oil export port.

More than 300 families are burying their dead, or trying to recover their bodies after a building containing sweatshops collapsed in Bangladesh. The victims spent their last day alive making Joe Fresh garments for sale in Canada.

Dear Editor: Friday's North Shore News discussed the waterfront development by Ambleside.

IT shouldn't come as a surprise that in the wake of the Boston bombings and an apparently foiled plot to derail a train in Canada, the government has fast-tracked a new anti-terrorism bill.

Dear Editor: It would appear that letter-writer Rob Wynen does not drive a vehicle (Hit by Car Story Insensitive, North Shore News, April 14). The statement that jaywalking is safer than using crosswalks is absurd.

Dear Editor: I write regarding Trevor Carolan's unbalanced April 21 column, It's Time for a Change so Study Up, on the North Vancouver-Seymour candidates in the upcoming provincial election.

SO I sat down, sucked a thumb, and wrote an ingenious screed that could have been titled The Hinge of Western Democracy: British Columbia's Provincial Election. . . . Which I've scrapped.

IT didn't take long in the election campaign for our major political parties to prove they are both capable of making foolish mistakes and policies, and that neither has a monopoly on good sense.