Opinion

Dear Editor: We are concerned at the direction that Prime Minister Stephen Harper seems intent on taking Canada with his war on crime. The Omnibus Crime Bill approach is a proven failure.

"The facts are obvious. Our operating budget has been growing at twice the rate of inflation for the past few years. It's not sustainable long-term.

The idea that two people doing the same job should get the same pay seems about as simple as can be. But for close on three decades, Canada Post has insisted that if one of those people is a woman, she should get paid less.

Dear Editor: I read the letter from Mr. Martin Dale, Bear Threats Are Being Ignored (North Shore News, Nov. 13) with much interest, concern and disappointment.

FOR the best part of the last three weeks, the candidates in the three North Shore municipalities and two school districts have spent most of their waking hours trying to get their message to the voters. Since Sunday Oct.

Dear Editor: In the Nov. 11 North Shore News survey of candidates, you did not identify me as an incumbent with an asterisk as you did for all of the other sitting councillors. This is misleading and I would like a correction printed.

Dear Editor: During the recent all-candidates meeting hosted by the Grand Boulevard-Ridgeway Residents Association, Craig Keating, running for re-election as a councillor in the City of North Vancouver, was asked the following question: Should you be

Dear Editor: I have always enjoyed reading Trevor Lautens' articles in the North Shore News; I think it is the swath of the rapier that makes me chuckle or maybe it is something about "hoisting" and "petarding." But the Nov.

THERE's nothing like the annual Canadian Federation of Independent Business report on municipal spending to upset town hall.