Opinion

APRIL is supposed to be the cruelest month, but for local taxpayers, it might just be July.

Dear Editor: Many people, including politicians, were surprised that BC Hydro would launch a $1-billion program to retrofit all the electricity meters in the province in a one-year time frame.

Dear Editor: With the prospect of increased traffic and congestion on Lonsdale Avenue looming every hour and every day, I thought a proposal might be useful. But first some background.

Dear Editor: Just read the cri due coeur letter from Sharon Harsford, Ambleside Inertia is Deadly (North Shore News, July 17).

"The main home is only 21,000 square feet. You can build up to 70,000. You could build a Gates home on there, really.

FINANCE Minister Kevin Falcon seems to have suddenly become very nervous.

Crime is dropping in Canada, and if the government would listen, it could save us a lot of money.

DAVID Hahn has a handsome salary, a fabulous pension, and plummeting respect on Main Street and possibly asea. For the next two years B.C.

WHATEVER happened to those stencilled yellow salmon that used to be a much greater part of the North Shore landscape? Perhaps the proliferation of the salmon silhouettes on our curbs tended to dull our notice of them, but we still believe they make c

Dear Editor: What's with everyone's one-track mind? Building a costly octopus sprawl of mass transportation infrastructure is a bottomless pit.