Opinion

Editor: Your Oct. 8 article, “George gets the green light,” quoted Mayor Rowe: “The project under consideration, when fully built, is expected to generate tax revenues in excess of $300,000 per annum.

Minister Peter Fassbender: With reference to the Town of Gibsons’ application to transfer funds from its parks acquisition fund, I am writing you to ask you to refuse their request.

Editor: If you play the stock market today, beware. There are sharks in the tank. The stock market has changed 100 per cent in the last 20 years from investing in a company that you like and want to invest in to a La Vegas gambling racket.

Editor: Retro Queen Christy Clark is bringing back paisley shirts, bell-bottom jeans and gigantic dams. Back in the ’60s, building dams in B.C.

Editor: Just brought my travel trailer home for the winter and experienced BC Ferries’ electronic vehicle measuring system. Having previously measured the overall length of my truck and trailer, I knew it was 43 feet.

Editor: Thank you for the recent story on our daughter, Melissa Finch, currently fighting lymphoma (“Family is raising funds,” Sept. 17). Our one-day fundraiser at Simpson Health Centre on Sept.

Editor: A couple of weeks ago, neighbours told me that the forest trail that joins Shaw Road in Upper Gibsons to Stewart Road in Lower Gibsons had changed.

Editor: I think it is completely wrong that Trudeau limit the number of women in his Cabinet to just half. This means that women’s ability does not count and quota comes first! Fin Anthony, Sechelt

Editor: BC Ferries’ VP of strategic planning and community engagement Mark Collins informed our Southern Sunshine Coast Ferry Advisory Committee on Oct.

Editor: Your Oct. 30 lead article on the FAC meeting (“BC Ferries won’t talk fare equity, restored sailings”) demonstrates very clearly that BC Ferries’ senior (mis)management live in a fantasy world wholly divorced from reality.