Opinion

WITH apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan, we imagine that a bylaw officer's lot is not a happy one. The frontline of municipal enforcement requires a thick skin, the patience of Job and the tact of Solomon.

"In both communities, 80 per cent of folks were opposed to this merger." Burnaby-Douglas MP Kennedy Stewart opposes the possible creation of a new electoral riding combining Burnaby and North Vancouver (from a Jan. 30 news story). . . .

Dear Editor: Thanks for your informative Jan. 20 Sunday Focus story, In Safer Hands. It really was deserving of the front page. A non-antibiotic therapy that's: ? reducing infections by 39 per cent; ? saving $1.

Port Metro Vancouver has had the last word after a test of wills with eagle-supporting protesters on East Esplanade.

SO, West Vancouverites, are you happy with the iron rule of the Garbage Gestapo and Trash Marxists? You may have quickly detected I'm not. You got that right. Garbage in West Van will be collected only every two weeks starting April 22.

Dear Port of Vancouver: I saw in the newspaper that you are cutting down a tree with an eagle's nest in it. Eagles live there and I am not happy that their home is being destroyed. Please don't cut down the tree.

WITH aggressive expansion coming to the amount of coal and grain Port Metro Vancouver exports, it's time to take a closer look at the price our lungs are going to pay.

Dear Editor: While Todd Major's articles are always informative, he is wrong to say in his Jan. 23 column, Exotic Plants Not Always Bad, that people extoll the virtues of native plants to the exclusion of all other plants.

WITH due respect to Justice John Hall, chairman of the B.C. Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission, there is a not so "difficult to think of" alternative to the creation of a Burnaby North-Seymour riding.

Dear Editor: Kudos to you for your Jan. 20 editorial regarding Lance Armstrong and the part played by those of us who willingly ignored the mounting evidence because of a deep need to keep the illusion intact. Your kind of insight is rare.