Opinion

Editor: After 10 long years of debate and delay, we're finally upgrading our wastewater treatment facilities. We've seen proposals that range from baking our excrement using fossil fuels to pumping our waste water uphill for treatment.

Editor: I was shocked - and very much saddened - last Friday (March 8) when my son's young dog galloped joyfully through the woods in Cliff Gilker Park and out onto Highway 101, where he was hit by a car.

Editor: Thank you for the excellent editorial regarding the Kits Coast Guard Station closing (Coast Reporter, March 1). I was unaware of the plan to build a $6.6 million Coast Guard station in Newfoundland while Vancouver goes without.

Editor: I was pleased to read Paul Martiquet's column "Art promotes healthy aging" (Coast Reporter, Feb. 15) on the benefits of making art, particularly for the elderly.

Editor: Why is Sechelt rushing to sign contracts by early March with the Veolia consortium to build the new wastewater treatment facility at the Ebbtide site, ahead of the March 19 open house? In March 2012 the District invited five companies to subm

Editor: It was with both anger and despairthat I read the articles drawing attention to Women's Day on March 8, in particular, "A Voice for the Silent,"which mentions the appalling amount of sexual violence against women, and how fewcriminals are bro

It's astounding how supposedly business-minded governments can be so bad at doing business. How they can stare an opportunity in the face and miss it entirely. Take B.C. as a prime example.

The following letter was sent to Sunshine Coast Community Forest chair Glen Bonderud and copied to Coast Reporter. I attended a joint watershed committee meeting on March 1 at the Sunshine Coast Regional District.

April Fools - your BC Ferry fares are going up again. But it is no joke and no one is laughing as the corporation announced March 6 that it would be going ahead with its planned 4.1 per cent fare hike for all routes on April 1.

Editor: It is alarming to see our Sechelt mayor and council apparently making behind closed doors arbitrary decisions involving our new sewage treatment plant without prior meaningful public consultation.