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Editor's note: Coast Reporter and its sister papers Powell River Peak, Squamish Chief and Whistler Question will be asking the candidates a series of questions during the campaign. Candidates Doug Hartt and Terry Platt did not respond this week.

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for April 12 to 19: On April 12 two shoplifters were witnessed stealing a large quantity of dog food from a business in the 4300 block of Highway 101.

Under the guidance of executive director Ron Pepper, the 11-member Habitat board recently elected their 2011 executive and committee chairs.

Part-time Gibsons resident Don Chapman, the leader of the Lost Canadians wants to see the federal leaders taking citizenship issues much more seriously during this election campaign.

Story: Buddy Boyd of Gibsons Recycling want to see School District No. 46 (SD46) implement a waste audit in all schools on the Coast.

Despite a crowded seven-person candidates' table, the battle between incumbent Conservative member of Parliament John Weston and Liberal hopeful Dan Veniez was clearly the main event at the Squamish federal candidates' forum on April 13.

Broom Busters is a group of local residents dedicated to clearing Scotch Broom from our environment. Scotch Broom (Cytisus scoparius) is an invasive perennial first introduced to Vancouver Island in 1850.

Canada's May 2 federal election is about character and vision, according to Bob Rae, the Liberal Party's foreign affairs critic. "This is an unusually important election," he said at a town hall meeting in Powell River on Saturday morning, April 9.

The provincial government is launching a public engagement process to consider options to improve the harmonized sales tax (HST), Deputy Premier and Finance Minister Kevin Falcon and Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Blair Lekstrom announced

Violence against women is a persistent and ongoing problem not only in Canada but internationally. It affects women's social and economic equality and security, physical and mental health, and general well being.