Opinion

Editor: Having read the original story of his family, I was pleased to see your announcement of the publication of Ken Custance’s second book in the Coast Reporter (“Art Beat,” Oct. 30).

Editor: According to the group Oil Change International, the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline would facilitate a major increase in tar sands extraction, releasing as much as 162 million additional tonnes of CO2 per year, or the equivalent of

The confusion started on Saturday when the B.C. government website listed the Sunshine Coast among the communities exempt from the new regional public health order announced by Dr. Bonnie Henry earlier in the day.

The U.S. election served as a reminder of how much healthier the political discourse is in this province.

In late September, a letter was sent to a number of Vancouver Coastal Health officials, B.C.’s health minister and seniors advocate, the local MLA and MP, Dr. Bonnie Henry, and a few others.

When the world is a raging dumpster fire, one of the most productive actions we can take to save ourselves from the siren call of fatalism is to put on a brave face and focus on the things – often little things – we can control.

Editor: Growing up in a small country English village in the 1940s, all the males in the neighbourhood would build a huge bonfire of spare wood cuttings on a vacant lot in the weeks before Guy Fawkes’ Night on November 5 each year.

Editor: Your online article of Oct. 26, “Simons projected to win,” states: “Simons said he doesn’t think the apparent growth of Green support came at the NDP’s expense and wasn’t necessarily a message for the NDP.

Editor: It is past time that our SCRD acknowledge it has made a bad decision regarding the Gibsons pool and immediately correct it.

Editor: Dog waste bags are strewn everywhere on the walk from Armours Beach to Gramma’s Pub on the Landing.