Opinion

Editor: Re: Across the Lines CD launch On Jan. 13 we attended the Across the Lines CD release at the Gibsons and Area Community Centre. What an amazing afternoon of innovative music to launch an equally exciting community project.

Editor: I was upset to read about yet another dog attack (Coast Reporter, Jan. 12). My heart goes out to the woman whose dog was killed. The man whose dogs were responsible did not even try to stop them.

It's fitting this week in the lead up to Literacy Week that we feature a young man in our community pages who has overcome enormous odds to become a published author.

Editor: In response to the letter from Bonnie Nicol (Coast Reporter, Jan. 4), with all due respect, it would be advisable for you to know something about Canada's gun control laws prior to lecturing your member of Parliament.

Editor: The Idle No More movement will mean so much more to First Nations people than it does to me.

Editor: Re: John Weston's thoughts on Idle No More (Coast Reporter, Jan. 11).

Editor: Most of our new Sechelt councillors are entrepreneurs and they know how to get to work quickly and make it count.

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.