Opinion

While many of us are still basking in the after-glow of an amazing Winter Olympic Games experience, the Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC) is working hard to capitalize on that Olympic glow and positive energy the Games brought to our province.

Editor: Six years ago, my partner Ben and I opened a Gibsons' business which ran for five years, a nurturing space for physical and spiritual growth.

Editor: People living on the Sunshine Coast are blessed with abundant wildlife and glorious natural spaces only dreamed of in the highly urbanized communities where most of the world's population now lives.

Editor: I think Ms. Samaras missed the point of the documented letters written by Chris Rowan regarding the overuse of "technology" in education (Coast Reporter letters, April 16). Parents as taxpayers want the best for their kids.

Spring is here, and so too are the bears - and they are plenty hungry looking for food after their winter's sleep. Environment Minister Barry Penner is urging B.C.

In the movies, reporters are always uncovering complex political scandals, hobnobbing with the powerful or, at the very least, frequenting interesting bars and drinking expensive scotch.

Editor: It's interesting on this Earth Day of 2010 to read about what passes for "sustainable development" according to government and industry.

Editor: I suppose that what follows is a statistic within a statistic and that it still holds true. Two censuses ago, I was a census form distributor in Gibsons.

The following letter was sent to Finance Minister Colin Hansen and copied to Coast Reporter. I do not understand how you can justify spending more than $1 million trying to persuade citizens that the latest tax grab is good for us.

Editor: Grateful as I am for the consistent encouragement and support that Coast Reporter has given to Arrowhead over the years, I feel I must correct an impression left by the editor in his recent celebration of good news in the community (Coast Rep