Opinion

'Homelessness is a socio-economic problem where we are seeing housing as an asset and not as a human right. Drug addiction is a mental health problem and requires recovery intervention. We need real solutions.'

'It is time for action, education, and most importantly, teamwork to do our best to protect lives, properties, and our beloved and stressed forests.'

Provinces pleading with the federal government to keep potentially violent offenders off the streets as they face trials

'Show me the water first, be it Dusty Road or any other possibility, but do not issue scads of building permits without the assurance that it will definitely be there.'

'The SCRD has thrown out all the effort and fundraising that has happened in the last 10 years for a hall replacement at Coopers Green that has been the social hub for the last 110 years. Sixty-four per cent of respondents to the SCRD survey wanted a hall at Coopers Green.'

'Besides losing the beautiful old Acacia trees on site – trees the town has sworn to protect – Stonehurst represents one of the underpinnings of our unique “Five Corners” intersection in the lower village.'

Mother of a 16-year-old who died of a toxic mix of lethal drugs deplores lack of B.C. government action on recommendations from inquest into her son’s death.

John Horgan’s private career still public, caught in political and environmental crossfire