Opinion

Dear Editor: At the May 28 city council meeting, the North Van City Voices delegation presented concerns regarding the process being used to review the Official Community Plan.

In the same week that the chief coroner of Ontario called for mandatory bike helmet laws in that province, a group of cycling advocates on this coast has called for our own helmet regulations to be relaxed or scrapped. The mind boggles.

Dear Editor: Sam Wade and I would sincerely like to thank you for running a story on our Easter Seals on Wheels fundraising campaign in the North Shore News.

IN floating a plan to jack up fees at the Lower Mainland's park-andrides, TransLink has its heart in the right place, but perhaps not its brain.

Dear Editor: In reading your article on the subject of the North Shore mayors' concerns with the rising cost of policing (Mayors Favour Joint Police Study, June 17, North Shore News), and in particular amalgamating the three policing areas, I couldn'

Dear Editor: In your June 10 editorial, Dead in the Water, you wrote: "The North Shore's (Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue) spokesmen are understandably reluctant to criticize the decision to close the Kitsilano base.

Dear Editor: I was made aware of how isolated, and thus scary, a place Phibbs Exchange can be the very first time I waited there for a bus a number of years ago (Making Phibbs Less 'Scary', June 17, North Shore News).

Dear Editor: I would like to add clarity to your editorial, "Request Stop" (North Shore News, June 13) about proposed termination of TransLink's TaxiSaver program, which provides discount taxi rides to seniors and people with disabilities.

IN the fight against international crime, any state must balance the freedom of its citizens against their security. As public anxiety ebbs and flows, policies tend naturally to swing from one extreme to the other.