Opinion

Editor: In recent weeks several SCRD staff have been verbally abused by residents of this community. Just this week another staff member was specifically targeted in a flyer distributed by an organization.

Editor: I was so disgusted, sad and disappointed by the protest at Sechelt Hospital (“Freedom to work rally,” Sept. 3).

Editor: We keep hearing about how many people died of COVID in B.C. in the last 18 months.

Editor: I was horrified to hear of the recent behaviour of some B.C.

Editor: The Sunshine Coast doesn’t have a water shortage. Rather, it has far more water than it needs. The problem is that most of it is salty. This fact hit home three years ago when my husband and I visited Los Cabos, Mexico.

Editor: I, along with pretty much everyone else on the Coast, have been diligently conserving water and reading the articles and letters about our dwindling water supply with great interest and dismay.

Editor: Did you know that in Gibsons anyone can purchase a house, live off site, and rent it out on Airbnb with no accountability for the negative effects on the neighbours? There are no laws preventing absentee homeowners from renting out as many ro

Editor: This letter was sent to Forests Minister Katrine Conroy and Premier John Horgan. I was extremely upset to hear that campfire bans are being lifted in coastal B.C. with the exception of the south Island.

Editor: I strongly agree with the comments by W.S. Barden (“Gibsons has odour issue,” Letters, Aug. 20) regarding the unacceptable putrid odours emanating from the Gibsons wastewater treatment plant.

Editor: As readers may know, Henry David Thoreau was a prominent American environmentalist in the last century. He was famous for his back-to-nature style of living on Walden Pond in Concord, Mass.