Opinion

Editor: While the Gibsons swimming community is thankful for the promised reopening, we are perplexed by the continued handwringing about the cost and staffing (“Directors OK ‘accelerated restart’ of Gibsons pool,” Nov. 20). We offer two remedies: 1.

Editor: A public display of anger and treating others disrespectfully over the mask mandate is not OK. Treat others as you want to be treated, with love and kindness.

Editor: An open letter to Sunshine Coast Community Forest (SCCF): I want to initially advise you that SCCF blocks in the area of the Historic Railway Grade off Big Fir access road is an area of very fine mycological significance.

Editor: As an initiative of the Canadian Labour Congress, this letter was sent to West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country MP Patrick Weiler. Workers on the frontlines of this pandemic are getting us through this pandemic.

Editor: An open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: 2030? Action on climate control is required now! Competition of funding with the “economy” is not an argument because the way climate warming is proceeding, we will be left without an “economy.

Last Thursday’s release of COVID-19 case numbers for the Sunshine Coast brought some very good news – only three confirmed cases were reported for the month of October. It came as a surprise.

There’s a cliché in reporting that when an athlete at the top of their game or a politician at the height of popularity says they’re stepping away to spend more time with their family, it really means they’re angling for a bigger contract or getting

Editor: Seeing the price of gas in Vancouver less than here on the Coast reminded me of a time when the price charged here was much lower than in Metro Vancouver. It now seems that the price of $123.9 on the Coast versus $101.

Editor: Looking at the long dark winter ahead, I decided to upgrade our family board games.