Opinion

Editor: In the Dec. 18 edition of Coast Reporter, you reported the new housing society’s name as Sunshine Coast Housing Society (SCHS).

Editor: Please set aside the trees in Port Renfrew that are in danger of being turned into toothpicks. Thousand-year-old trees are worth a hell of a lot more, the way they are, than to log them for a one-time profit.

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Editorial

Dear Mayor Rowe and Council: I am writing you to express my concern and disapproval regarding the approved variances to the zoning bylaw for the expansion of the Gibsons Public Market.

Editor: I am confused. The Gibsons Community Building Society (GCBS) states that it is a not-for-profit group. I noted a full-page colour ad in last week’s paper pleading for money for the Gibsons Public Market, a project of the GCBS.

Editor: The climate science is not settled? Yes, in a pedantic sense, Gordon Politeski is right; it’s not. But what he seems unaware of is that science and common sense are not incompatible.

Editor: There remain some Doubting Thomases as to whether the science is settled on human exacerbated climate change, just as some still doubt that smoking causes cancer, or whether Elvis really did leave the building.

Editor: In response to Mike Corrigan’s letter “Ferries CEO responds” (Dec. 11).

Editor: I’m becoming outraged by all the recent Hydro outages. I think others are, too. I’d bet BC Hydro is fed up with them as well, not to mention those heroes who head out to fix things at all hours, in all kinds of weather.