Opinion

Editor: Re: “All candidates mostly agree on major issues,” June 19. In the past, the Sunshine Coast Club of the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) has appreciated your paper’s careful reporting of CFUW events.

Editor: Sadly I have another negative story about BC Ferries to add to the many submitted to the paper. Our story began on June 21, a day to celebrate Father’s Day and attend FIFA soccer in Vancouver.

Editor: Opinions of the Sechelt Nation are blowing like the wind here on the Sunshine Coast, heading in all directions. Some are supportive and respectful, and others are angered and resentful.

An open letter to MP John Weston, MLA Nicholas Simons and SCRD Area A director Frank Mauro: This letter is sent with the utmost respect for the integrity of the individuals addressed.

Editor: Recently the Gibsons and District Chamber of Commerce asked local businesses to participate in their Business Walk, determining each business’s successes, barriers, and solutions to improving business in the community.

Editor: It should be of concern to all taxpayers when governments needlessly duplicate services and create expensive bureaucracies while at the same time pressuring our educational system with “fiscal restraint.

Editor: I recently attended the March Against Monsanto in Roberts Creek. As always, it was an uplifting experience to attend a political protest.

Editor: At the top of the letters page in last week’s Coast Reporter is the question of the week, in which a poll found that 83 per cent of those responding thought that NIMBYism was an issue.

Editor: It is difficult to explain proportional representation in simple terms, but the injustice of our electoral system is glaring. In the last election the Conservatives won 39.

Editor: “It is easier to beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission.” I cannot understand how prominent, educated, and skilled individuals from the Vancouver business world do not know about zoning.