Opinion

Editor: May is Asian Heritage Month across Canada, a time during which we acknowledge, celebrate and reflect on the rich history and vast contributions Canadians of Asian descent have made and continue to make to the cultural, social and economic lan

Survey finds broad support for requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for travel, attendance of public events, working in offices.

Politicians were getting it in both ears this week as two separate ferries-related issues blew up in a big way.

The much-romanticized phases of the Sunshine Coast’s past gives this place a glossy sheen. For many, it’s still a hippie hideaway, a draft dodger’s destination, a haven for fishers and loggers, a vacationer’s coastal escape.

Editor: “Route 3” as BC Ferries calls it, is our – Sunshine Coast residents’ – highway! The idea of restricting access to people that want to go to Vancouver on short notice or come back whenever they are finished doing

Editor: I’m fully opposed to the changes for reservations and fares BC Ferries is proposing for the Langdale service. The limited advantages for the ridership of BC Ferries would not be worth the added costs they entail.

Editor: I have yet to figure out the ins and outs of BC Ferries’ confusing new reservation and payment system and so I won’t address those details.

Editor: The new BC Ferries summer reservation system is totally disappointing. It feels like we are reliving a passage from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy .

Editor: The ferry reservation system change is really a bad idea, wrapped up inside of a sneaky fare increase.

Editor: BC Ferries’ latest proposal to make Route 3 a 95 per cent reservations system is missing a big point.