Opinion

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.

Editor: Through a partnership between the Halfmoon Bay Community Association and the SCRD, the federal and provincial governments have agreed to provide just over $2 million toward the building of a new community hall in Halfmoon Bay to replace the a

Editor: The Sunshine Coast Art Crawl committee would like to give a huge shout out to the participating artists, the art crawlers, the sponsors, funders and the Sunshine Coast community for their support in this very unusual year for the Art Crawl.

The provincial election realigned the political landscape like rarely before, but it is far from clear whether the changes will be lasting. For example, does the B.C.

Sitting on a mathematically certain blowout win, the NDP were careful on election night not to sound like they were taking the more than half a million uncounted votes for granted.