Opinion

70% of the province’s mobile phone users said their plan is “very expensive” or “moderately expensive,” poll finds.

For some of you, it’s already over. Elections Canada reported this week that an estimated 22,422 electors in West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country had voted at the advance polls between Sept. 10 and 13.

Predicting an election outcome is a risky endeavour at best, but a somewhat safer exercise is focusing on the specific ridings that may determine which party forms government after the Sept. 20 vote. In B.C.

Editor: Have you recently tried going out for a beer or a dinner at one of our local restaurants and found it to be closed? Or maybe it was open, but with reduced hours? It appears that we on the Coast have a shortage of restaurant staff and after di

Editor: I agree with Steve Bailey about the cancellation of the Sept. 1 in-person all-candidates meeting at High Beam Dreams (“Candidates disappointing,” Letters, Sept. 10).

Editor: The paid advertisement on page 13 last week is headed up “Your Rights and Freedoms” and purports to give us the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Editor: Reading Lawrence Dolha’s letter (“Had COVID, don’t want jab,” Sept. 10) has made me rethink my position on this whole vaccination business. At first blush, the fact that B.C.

Editor: In reading the Sept. 3 letter “Deluded like Don Quixote,” I had no problem agreeing with the description of anti-vaxxers as delusional.

Editor: The Sept. 9 federal leaders’ debate was the usual mishmash of accusation and counteraccusation with leaders interrupting and shouting over each other.

Editor: Re: “SCRD staff targeted,” by Dean McKinley, Letters, Sept. 10. I do not condone abuse or targeting behaviour against staff, but over the past 17 months the services provided by the SCRD are subpar. We are once again in Stage 4.