Opinion

Editor: This letter was sent to B.C.’s superintendent of motor vehicles. Recently, I paid a goodly fee for my family doctor to tell you I am capable of safely driving an automobile.

Editor: Re: “SCRD adopts $7.25M loan bylaw after water-meter AAP passes,” July 16. There must be many taxpaying voters who were against spending $7.25 million plus on water meters.

Editor: If it’s yellow, let it mellow… I’ve been living on the Sunshine Coast for seven years now and have lived through a few summers of severe water restrictions, even to the point of taking showers with buckets to collect water

From forty-ninth to pole it sits, Empty cold with city bits. Covered once with thick blue ice, Now has summers green and nice. No one sprouted out of ground, Like a tree or grass is found. No one ever owned the land, Given not by pen or hand.

Editor: It is said that a rose is a rose, is a rose. But the display of roses that I have observed with great delight all around the Sunnycrest Mall parking lot for the past couple of months has been beyond extraordinary.

Poll finds that 72% of Canadians are satisfied with the procurement of vaccine doses by the federal government.

The new Poverty Reduction Strategy for the Lower Sunshine Coast is a valuable snapshot of a moving target.

I shook someone’s hand this week. It felt like I cheated on my wife. Really, after a year and a half of self-conscious elbow bumps and sheepish head nods, it seemed wrong.

Editor: Re: “Dogs in vehicles” item in Police Report, July 9.

Editor: When people hear about the upcoming Sechelt airport runway celebration, they should remember that until 1999 the landscape surrounding the runway was a wilderness. Aerial video footage shows the extent of the problem.