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Opinion: Note to FOI law reviewers: Don’t bother

Opinion: Note to FOI law reviewers: Don’t bother

The NDP government convened a committee last summer to begin work on reviewing and updating B.C.’s information and privacy law. The MLAs met for two minutes and haven’t been seen since.
Letters: Sparking conversations

Letters: Sparking conversations

Editor: For many years, I have appreciated the diversity of opinions expressed in the Coast Reporter. Each week, I know I will find open and honest debate on the editorial page and in the letters to the editor.
Letters: Other side also uncivil

Letters: Other side also uncivil

Editor: I’m writing to express my extreme disappointment with your editorial of Oct. 15, “Intolerance towards unvaccinated is getting toxic.
Letters: Patience has human cost

Letters: Patience has human cost

Editor: Re: “Intolerance towards unvaccinated is getting toxic,” Editorial, Oct. 15.
Letters: Editorial spoke for many

Letters: Editorial spoke for many

Editor: I want to thank you for your measured, thoughtful editorial, “Intolerance toward unvaccinated is getting toxic.” I appreciate your courage and common sense.
Letters: Favourite eateries missed

Letters: Favourite eateries missed

Editor: I realize that tastes will differ, and so on, but I could not help wondering who voted in the favourite eateries section of the People’s Choice Awards survey that appeared in the Coast Reporter of Oct.
Letters: Not the road to UNDRIP

Letters: Not the road to UNDRIP

Editor: The recent View from the Ledge column by Keith Baldrey (“Logging protests illuminate the change in B.C.’s NDP”) misses the point.
Letters: Get it right on sick leave

Letters: Get it right on sick leave

Editor: This letter was sent to Powell River-Sunshine Coast MLA Nicolas Simons. The Ministry of Labour is consulting on the future of paid sick leave in B.C. There’s only one answer: workers need 10 days of employer-paid sick leave a year.
Letters: Regional strategy needed

Letters: Regional strategy needed

Editor: Unless they were intended to goad local politicians and their staff to action, I just can’t understand the rationale behind Messrs.
Letters: A matter of semantics

Letters: A matter of semantics

Editor: Re: “Park values include water,” by Daniel Bouman, Letters, Oct. 15. In response to Brian Carson’s letter of Sept. 24 regarding Chapman Lake, Mr.