Opinion

Dear Editor: I'm writing this in response to your March 20 story, TransLink Appeals SeaBus Assessment. Don't you find that the content of some news articles make you sit up and go "hhmm"? To me, this is one of these articles.

Dear Editor: With the provincial election just around the corner, the North Shore can once again look forward to the proliferation of election signs along public roadways from Horseshoe Bay to Deep Cove.

USING financial incentives to force people to "do the right thing" isn't a bad idea in theory. One sure way to motivate action is through the wallet. If you have to pay for your bad behaviour, your behaviour will usually change sooner than later.

IT'S Easter - traditionally a time for joyful hosanas. But even as an encouraging seismic shift is underway in the Roman Church that for 1,500 years has been the dominant cultural force in Western civilization, ironically in B.C.

"BC Hydro trumps us, Port Metro Vancouver trumps us, and all we can do is let them know how upset we are. Hopefully they're listening.

Dear Editor: It is a great pity that Mayor Michael Smith and some members of council have forgotten the lesson they said they had heard and understood in March 2011, when more than 500 people at a public meeting strenuously voiced their opposition to

Dear Editor: I was glad to see his worship the mayor of West Vancouver respond on March 17 in the North Shore News to Gail Cotter's letter and subsequent comment from others about the redevelopment of the 1300-block of Ambleside.

PORT Metro Vancouver has an immediate opportunity to show it can be a good neighbour and perhaps win back some goodwill from a neighbourhood in the City of North Vancouver that is otherwise spoiling for a fight with the local bully boy.

Dear Editor: Your March 20 story, WV Transport Plan Is Pedestrian Oriented, tells us that West Vancouver council "happily received the municipality's Strategic Transportation Plan." It is hard to tell where these happy people live.