Opinion

Editor: Re: Letter to the editor from Elizabeth McNeill (Coast Reporter, May 4). I attended the Stockwells' open house at their gravel pit and viewed the location of the proposed site.

Editor: I am writing in regard to the letter about gas prices (Coast Reporter, May 4).

Editor: It seems as if the term "misinformation rules" is an accurate slogan for the "concerned East Porpoise Bay citizens" who have spoken their opposition regarding any and all changes occurring in the District of Sechelt.

Editor: May is Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) awareness month. MCS is a chronic condition with symptoms that recur reproducibly in response to low levels of exposure to multiple unrelated chemicals.

Editor: The Coaster mountain bike race has now been running for three years. Before that it was the Rat Race and that ran for eight years.

Editor: Re: Viveca Ohm's letter hungry kids (Coast Reporter, May 11).

Editor: Adrian Dix and the entire B.C. NDP caucus courageously signed an April 30 letter to the Northern Gateway joint review panel on Enbridge's proposed pipelines from Alberta's oil sands to Kitimat.

Most of us have been warned at one time or another about cutting off our nose to spite our face. At first blush that seems to be what happened when a majority of us voted to ditch the harmonized sales tax last year.

Editor: Is it really possible for the federal Conservative cabinet ministers to rack up $600,000 in overtime pay for limousine services, at the same time as they are cutting government services? This kind of opulence seems obscene.

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