Opinion

Dear Editor: I read with interest that Onni have pulled out of the Safeway project at 13th and Lonsdale (Safeway Development Dead: Onni, Dec. 5, North Shore News).

BOYS will be boys. And so, apparently will the grown men we elect to govern the country. Just when we thought the level of debate in parliament couldn't sink any lower, along comes an event to prove us wrong.

Dear Editor: Regarding Richardson International's proposed expansion of its North Shore grain terminal (City To Lobby Port Over Grain Silo Expansion, Oct.

Dear Editor: Regarding the "death" of the Safeway redevelopment (Safeway Development Dead: Onni, Dec.

THE two-year saga of Central Lonsdale's Safeway site redevelopment appears to have come to an abrupt end this week when the Onni group announced it was scrapping its plan.

CHRISTMAS approaches, and I muse about the Christian church, love and Internet dating. Something tells me that the last subject is more compelling for today's readers than the other two. Patience. Wait for it. All right, I bow to your begging.

Dear Editor: Once again we see the mayor of Surrey, Dianne Watts, on the news calling for all bridges in the Lower Mainland to be tolled to help pay for the new Port Mann Bridge.

If the lights and gaudy store displays are any indication, the holiday season is upon us.What are your holiday reflections?

PRESERVING parkland is a cause near and dear to many residents of North Vancouver.

Dear Editor: I appreciate John Hunter's desire to engage in the Kinder Morgan pipeline discussion (Tankers, Pipelines Already Provide 70% of B.C.'s Gas, Nov. 14), even though he describes my statement as "over simplistic and largely untrue.