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What about another study?

What about another study?

Dear Editor: Interesting the District of North Vancouver would commission a study to amalgamate fire services to save money.
Society explained for the left wing's benefit

Society explained for the left wing's benefit

Dear Editor: Regarding your Viewpoint, Income Chasm (North Shore News, Feb. 5): Another ridiculous left-wing editorial from your left-wing newspaper. If you do not understand the type of society that we have here let me explain it for you.
License, insure longboarders

License, insure longboarders

Dear Editor: Skateboarding on roads is one idea I am absolutely against. I live in the Seymour area and do not want these boards flying around the streets; it is bad enough they almost hit people now.
New pornography

New pornography

IT'S difficult to understand where the Conservative Party stands on issues of individual rights and freedoms. Old-guard Reformers previously favoured smaller government and less regulation.
Get a return ticket for these bus shelters

Get a return ticket for these bus shelters

I'M reluctant to speak ill of the politically departed, but the gatekeeper who waved in Jimmy Pattison's widely disliked "bus shelters" in West Vancouver was Pamela Goldsmith-Jones. The buck stops there - on the mayor's desk. She was mayor.
Pot-ential change

Pot-ential change

FOUR former attorneys general of British Columbia have coauthored a letter asking Premier Christy Clark and Opposition leader Adrian Dix to endorse an end to marijuana prohibition.
Harbourside consultation process is 'opened up'

Harbourside consultation process is 'opened up'

Dear Editor: I am writing in response to your Feb. 8 editorial, Rush to Judgement, in which you referred to our decision in respect of the potential OCP change at Harbourside as "muddleheaded at best" and "downright duplicitous at worst.
DNV fouls out on hoop

DNV fouls out on hoop

Dear Editor: I was shocked to hear that someone at the District of North Vancouver approved the removal of the Floralynn Crescent neighbourhood basketball hoop with no verbal communication. This hoop was left by previous neighbours 15 years ago.
You said it

You said it

"At times I feel overwhelmed with the case load." Homeless outreach worker Geoff Bodnarek comments on the number of people who wind up on the North Shore, trying to escape gentrification and the dangers of the Downtown Eastside.
Courting disaster

Courting disaster

THERE'S an old joke among engineers: Faster, better, cheaper - pick two. That's the core of the crisis that's facing B.C.