Opinion

Dear Editor: I write in response to Tessa Holloway's Sept. 30 story, Mayors Mull End to RCMP in North Van, and your editorial in the same issue, Show of Force. During my police career, I was in charge of the Vancouver Police Internal Audit Unit.

Dear Editor: The District of West Vancouver should quite frankly be happy at how nice was Karol Traviss's Sept. 28 letter to the editor, Mini Billboards Invade W. Van.

PREMIER Christy Clark is nothing if not adept at reading public sentiment, so her throne speech announcement of a new stat holiday and her suggestion that the province's courts broadcast the trials of the Stanley Cup rioters are likely to be popular.

Dear Editor: West Vancouver council's decision to allow illuminated commercial billboards to be attached to new bus shelters in Ambleside has created serious planning problems and exposed an important public policy issue (New Bus Shelters Squeeze Foo

Dear Editor: Before Premier Christy Clark about-faced and quashed the idea of an autumn election, District of North Vancouver Councillor Mike Little confirmed his interest in running for provincial office in North Vancouver-Seymour, and city Coun.

Dear Editor: In less than two months, we will go to the polls to elect our next municipal government. The time has come for a serious, citizen-based discussion about eliminating the multiple bureaucracies operating on the North Shore.

Friday's decision by the Supreme Court of Canada to keep Vancouver's safe injection site open is a triumph for common sense. Study after study has concluded that Insite saves lives.

HELLO, pro-abortion people. Any comment on the Katrina Effert sentence? And the judge's words from the bench? Oh, unless you're deep in pro-life or so-called prochoice, you probably never heard of it. Now hear. In 2005 Effert, of Wetaskiwin, Alta.

The last few years have been tough for the RCMP in this province.

Dear Editor: I would like to commend you for your inspiring story about the Reginald family (Family Team, North Shore News, Sept. 25).