Opinion

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.

Dear Editor: I just read the letter from Angela Koudstaal in June 13's North Shore News (Learn to Share the Road with Longboarders) and would like to comment. I think she is very brave to let her son longboard on the road.

A year after the Stanley cup riot in Vancouver, the anniversary was marked largely by paperwork - on Friday, Crown prosecutors approved charges against 10 more people, bring the total number to 114.

"If China were to have a really hard landing, if Europe were to blow up or something like that, it would be a significant shock to the Canadian economy. (It) could mean a significant correction to the housing market over a shorter period of time.

Dear Editor: I am responding to Elizabeth James' June 13 column, Controlling the Message is also a Disease.