Opinion

For many of us in Canada, as we watch with morbid fascination the gong show grotesqueries of the current U.S.

To the editor: Re: "Letter of the Week," Oct. 12. Tracey Young rightly asks for an "action plan" to maintain Vancouver's existing trees. My several calls about trees since 2007 brought only the response that pruning is done on a seven-year cycle.

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To the editor: Re: "Mayor won't force thin streets on any neighbourhood," Oct. 5. So Mayor Gregor Robertson won't be forced on communities without their buy-in. Where have we heard that one before? Oh, yes.

To the editor, This Thursday, I, along with over half a million British Columbians, will stop, drop and cover when we take part in the Great British Columbia Shakeout.

Reagan actually who he seemed to be

To the editor: Bravo to Tracey Young for her well-written letter on overgrown trees in the city.

Far from being an unusual event, the ongoing train wreck that has engulfed the B.C. Conservative Party and its leader John Cummins is actually pretty standard fare in B.C. politics.

To the editor: Re: "Isolation bad for democracy," Oct. 5 Tom Sandborn is right that we, as a society, need to make more efforts to connect with each other.

To the editor: Re: "Fruits and Nuts," Central Park, Oct. 5.