Opinion

Editor: I have to say how angry I am at the district of Sechelt wanting to borrow $3.8 million to build a Taj Mahal at the top of Dusty Road. This loan will take 20 years for us taxpayers to pay back.

Editor: To pay for a new public works operations building, District of Sechelt council is seeking electoral approval through the Alternative Approval Process (APP) to borrow $3 million – to be repaid through more personal taxation.

Editor: Re: “Sechelt mayor pans chamber scheme,” Jan. 29.

Editor: This letter was sent to Member of Parliament Patrick Weiler and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. I write to urgently request that you do all in your power to have Canada sign and ratify the United Nations Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty.

Editor: The Trudeau government’s new regulations respecting air travel into Canada defy rational behaviour. To require additional testing after having been tested within the past 72 hours flies in the face of all logic.

Editor: This letter was sent to B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman. I am writing to you because of my concern about BC Parks and related issues. I spent much of my childhood and young adult life travelling B.C.

We get our stuff by ferry boat, It hauls big trucks across our moat. Food and meds and other things From far away on silver wings. Devices cased in plastic too Provide our information glue.

Editor: I have always been passionate about saving our old growth forests, but having just watched his latest documentary, A Life On Our Planet, David Attenborough demonstrates that it is imperative to do so, not just for the sake of the magnificence

Buried at the back of the latest “post-engagement” report by BC Ferries (perhaps the most shallow to date, artfully dubbed “Moving Ahead Together on the Sunshine Coast”) is a three-page letter, unsigned but initialled “dmd” and dated Dec. 6, 2020.

For those of us who spend almost every day scrutinizing the B.C. Centre for Disease Control’s “dashboard” for the latest COVID-19 updates, one bit of data has been a bit of a mystery.