Opinion

THE premier's promise this week to upgrade St. Paul's Hospital is a disheartening example of treatment without a treatment plan.

Dear Editor: Regarding your June 3 editorial, Royal Pain: On reflection, both North Vancouver municipalities should say no to any long term contract with the Mounties because of the present lack of accountability.

Dear Editor: I am the mother of a 13-year-old son who longboards. A few days ago he was out riding with his friends and was involved in an accident when an off-leash dog ran off the sidewalk at them.

FROM the outside, there appears to be no operational justification for TransLink to cancel its current Taxi Saver program.

Dear Editor: I am writing in regards to letters printed in your paper on June 1 and 6 relating the experiences of some constituents when corresponding with my office.

"My colleagues in Burnaby and Richmond will go to the wall." District of North Vancouver Mayor Richard Walton discusses the solidarity among municipalities that have not yet signed the new RCMP contract (from a June 3 news story). . . .

The typical winter water temperature in English Bay is less than 10 C. At those temperatures the time it takes to lose dexterity without a survival suit is less than five minutes and unconsciousness follows in 30 to 60 minutes.

THE unexpected rebirth of B.C.'s Conservative party has put Christy Clark's Liberals in quite a pickle.

RELIGION being unfashionable these days, few know that West Vancouver has a Civic God, just like pagan Roman cities. The gods of ancient Greece and Rome were completely amoral.

Dear Editor: I'm writing in support of the June 1 letter from Alison Andersen, Our 'Voice' in Ottawa Is Deaf. I first wrote to Andrew Saxton last fall using the link provided on the government website. No response. So I wrote a fresh email.