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Letters: While we're talking of mysterious creatures

Letters: While we're talking of mysterious creatures

'Having lived through a fair number of provincial elections on the Sunshine Coast, I’ve never understood why we insist the candidates take a position on a second highway but never ask for their thoughts on the topic of Sasquatches living on Mount Elphinstone.'
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Funds for projects to reduce local solid waste available

Funds for projects to reduce local solid waste available

Local non-profits, registered charities and groups representing facilities in School Districts 46 and 93 can apply for funds to help divert the waste they send to our area’s landfill.
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Sechelt council to release full governance audit highlighting dysfunction

Sechelt council to release full governance audit highlighting dysfunction

After partial release, Sechelt mayor pushes for full disclosure of governance audit following calls for accountability
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Opinion: FASD and me, FASD Awareness Month

Opinion: FASD and me, FASD Awareness Month

Hi, my name is Micheal Oswald. I’m 42 and I live with the diagnosis known commonly as FASD, or fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. I’m one of the four per cent of Canadians –– one of 1.5 million –– more than all those with autism, cerebral palsy, and down syndrome combined.
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Sechelt council endorses resolution rejecting residential school denialism, without mayor's support

Sechelt council endorses resolution rejecting residential school denialism, without mayor's support

Resolution comes as Sechelt is identified in a letter from Union of BC Indian Chiefs calling out residential school denialism and as it comes to light Mayor John Henderson had a book accused of residential school denialism in municipal hall earlier this year.
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Gibsons celebrates opening of first phase of Shaw Road affordable housing project

Gibsons celebrates opening of first phase of Shaw Road affordable housing project

As residents move into 40 newly completed rental homes in Gibsons, elected officials and invited dignitaries gathered Friday morning to celebrate the milestone and break ground for the next phase. 
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Art Beat: Fresh take on trail loops

Art Beat: Fresh take on trail loops

Musical artists Andrew Bate and Matthew Lovegrove performed an hour-long set of meditative melodies on Sept. 1 during an open-air concert in the Oxygen Trail Forest on the slopes of Mount Elphinstone.
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Arts festival plans estuary spectacle for fall equinox

Arts festival plans estuary spectacle for fall equinox

Stories of the Estuary is to coincide with autumn equinox, Sept. 21
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Advocates urge safer supply at International Overdose Awareness Day event

Advocates urge safer supply at International Overdose Awareness Day event

“Auntie,” “mother,” “survivor,” read some of the dozens of stickies affixed to the wall at Mission Point House, denoting qualities of people lost to toxic drugs.
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Ruth Rodgers writes about Blackfoot gender identity

Ruth Rodgers writes about Blackfoot gender identity

Cultures exposed, developed in new historical fiction
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