Opinion

Editor: Allow me to play your reader's (the so-called "friend of Israel") substitution game in reverse ("Why pick on Israel," Coast Reporter, Jan.

Editor: Thank you for your coverage of the Idle No More gathering in Sechelt (Coast Reporter, Jan. 11). It was yet another impressive showing of grassroots concerns with the direction taken by the Harper government.

The common dictionary definition of compassion is a "deep awareness of the suffering of another, coupled with the wish to relieve it." This definition has me thinking a lot about the society we live in.

Editor: Highway 101 in Davis Bay near the public washrooms is of concern. I find it very hard to believe that someone hasn't figured out to dig a small trench there from the pool of water back towards the ocean and put a nice grate over it.

Exactly 500 years ago, Niccolò Machiavelli wrote a self-help book for aspiring rulers that explains the methods whereby kingdoms are won and lost.

Editor: Keith Maxwell provided an opinion in his letter to the editor (Coast Reporter, Jan.

Editor: Mayor Henderson's New Year's message (Coast Reporter, Jan. 4) recognizes the past year was a rocky one for Sechelt council and asks that we "leave the negative energy back in 2012" and go forward on a positive note in 2013.

Editor: Re: "A typical media response" (Coast Reporter letters, Jan. 4).

A disturbing dog attack has us on edge this week. Last Saturday, Dana Urbanski was out walking with her Pomeranians Pepper and Hondo along the off-leash Kinnikinnick trails. It's a walk she has done many times - without incident.

Editor: Thank you, Elizabeth Scott, for bringing up the fixed link alternative to the current ferry system (Coast Reporter letters, Dec. 28).