Opinion

'The new hall will provide an adaptable venue for a variety of events such as meetings, classes, concerts, and family celebrations. The commercial kitchen will offer catered events, cooking classes, and a venue for concession style service by local vendors.'

Next year, our country will mark 10 years without the presence of a functioning one-cent coin in our pockets and purses

'In Canada, window strikes alone kill 16 to 42 million birds annually. Feral cats have a significant role to play in bird kills, with some estimates being as high as 59 per cent of kills by cats. Other factors such as automobile collisions, agricultural pesticides, agricultural mowing of ground nesting birds, and commercial forestry practices (destroying nests/habitat) account for millions more. Climate change also affects food sources and habitat contributing to population decline.'

"We respectfully request that you leave this most lovely location with all the litter/refuse that you came with (no matter how minute), as well as any other that you might come across. This way future generations may enjoy its manifest beauty as much as you/we do." Reads the sign on a tree stump.

From the heart in one case, from the head in another, I implore John Horgan and Doug McCallum: Step aside. Two significant political leaders are at critical career junctures. For vastly different reasons, they would be wisest to leave their posts.

'At work and in our communities, we all deserve to feel safe.'

'We must also be aware that we are substantially, a (self) introduced species and monitor ourselves. Ideally, we become one of the more beneficial introductions, to our adopted environment.'