Opinion

Dear Editor: I turned 24 four weeks ago, and five days after my birthday I was diagnosed with skin cancer. I had gone to a walk-in clinic four days before I was diagnosed to get a weird looking mole removed.

WE can probably all agree that educating young people is one of the most important investments a society can make to safeguard its long-term economic health. But as appealing as that argument is, you can't invest money you don't have.

Dear Editor: I am writing in response to Colleen Dawson's April 6 letter, Yellow Bag Recycling Limits Make No Sense, and the subsequent letters by Judith Brook (April 11) and Catherine MacDonald (April 13) regarding yellow bag recycling limits.

Dear Editor: Regarding the April 15 letter, Chickens in Residential Areas? No Clucking Way: I have lived in both rural and urban settings. For a number of years I raised chickens - 200 or more at the peak. I agree that roosters crow at all hours.

Dear Editor: Regarding your April 6 editorial, About Clucking Time: I hope this editorial is an Easter joke, if not, it's a bird-brained idea.

Dear Editor: Regarding your March 30 editorial, Over Due: Why is it that even smart people like you believe - as all politicians do - that a catch-up to their counterparts is overdue? Could it not be that their counterparts in "wherever" should not e

"When the premier speaks, we would rather her comments not be reported." Gabe Garfinkel, executive assistant to Premier Christy Clark, asking North Shore News reporter Benjamin Alldritt to leave a B.C. Liberals event (from an April 8 column). . . .

FUNDING public transportation is the Lower Mainland's own version of the Gordian Knot, and it's a rare municipal or provincial politician willing to risk their career on slicing it apart. Shame on them. The options are no mystery.

Dear Editor: I want to clarify my remarks on the Matt Wilcox inquest recommendations, cited by reporter Jane Seyd in her April 8 story, Jury's Police Training Proposal Supported.

IT'S not just our North Vancouver mayors who say their municipalities were blindsided by the three-years' worth of pay increases contained in the B.C. RCMP contract signed March 21 by B.C.