Opinion

Dear Editor: In response to Mark Steunenberg's letter (On Keith, Common Sense Takes the Wheel, July 15), I can't see how changing the configuration on East Keith Road to one uphill lane in order to reduce speeding can do anything but improve the safe

"In the immortal words of Homer Simpson, 'D'oh!' I cannot believe that the government is getting out of one of the businesses they make money at." Coun. Rod Clark expresses disbelief at the province's plan to privatize B.C.

Dear Editor: Re: the letter N. Shore Schools to Return to Normal and editorial, Class Warfare, June 29. We should in no way be lulled into complacency when told we are going back to normal in education. "Normal" in B.C.

Thanks to the hard work of organizations like the B.C.'s Centre for Excellence in HIV/ AIDS, the tide has slowly turned on a once terrifying disease. Now a provincial campaign aims to eliminate the virus completely.

Dear Editor: I write in response to your front page story in July 13's North Shore News (District Bans Longboards on Skyline). Your photo of two young longboarders says it all.

When we dream that we are dreaming, we are at the point of awakening Gangri Karma Rinpoche HOW many of us on the North Shore care about what happens in the rest of the world - about how international events have a bearing on our life here? I'm struck

Hands up everyone whose salaries have increased 50 per cent in the past six years. Or, for that matter, all who've enjoyed a substantial raise since 2008. We're guessing there aren't too many regular folk in that category.

WITHOUT hard figures, I suspect my readership among sharks (the animal variety) is sharply limited.

Dear Editor: I am deeply concerned about our society's growing tendency to facilitate the killing of human beings. On June 15, B.C.

Dear Editor: At the July 10 Town Hall meeting regarding the proposed Onni development at 1308 Lonsdale Ave., it was clear to me that many in the community feel overwhelmed by the development taking place on the Lonsdale corridor.