Opinion

Editor: Political extremism is rarely successful and can never be effective in a democracy. Yet, we seem to be, once again, experiencing this type of radical idealism in Gibsons.

Editor: Even the possibility that a proposal to burn Vancouver garbage in Howe Sound might send toxic winds blowing over Metro’s pristine North Shore watershed should be ringing alarm bells from Point Grey to the Fraser Valley.

Editor: The role of pharmacists in our health is greatly underestimated and misunderstood. I am one of the lucky people on the Coast; I have a great doctor.

Editor: I write to correct an error that appeared in Coast Reporter on April 18 within the Sunshine Coast community forest’s 2013 report.

The following was sent to the speaker of the Legislature, Agricultural Minister Pat Pimm and Powell River Sunshine Coast MLA Nicholas Simons Your muzzling of our MLA Nicholas Simons, forcing him to withdraw his accurate comment after he called the go

The following letter was sent to Sechelt council and copied to Coast Reporter. To Sechelt mayor and council: Spring is in the air and once again racks of clothing obstruct the sidewalk on the south side of Cowrie Street.

Editor: My Easter weekend got off to a soggy start on Thursday — rain all the way from Vancouver to Horseshoe Bay, then the Langford ferry — my destination Madeira Park. But I stopped in Gibsons to give the little dog a chance to do her business.

It’s during times like these that I wish I could be paid to home school or that there was a private school option available at little or no cost on the Coast.

Debate has been rampant across the country about Bill C-23 the Fair Elections Act, which contains a number of changes to the Elections Act.

For two years there has been plenty of talk about a comprehensive land-use and marine management plan for Howe Sound.