Opinion

By my calculations, on June 30, tourist season officially hit the Sunshine Coast.

If the system is flawed, it can be fixed, no matter what the obstacles may be. Proof of that is this week's news that DriveABLE testing will likely be available on the Coast this September.

How can a government legislate where people stay, what they eat, where they eat and when they eat? We're asking those questions and wondering what some directors at the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) were thinking last week when the issue of

Lately a lot of news stories have been bothering me, more for what's not being said than for what's being said. Take, for instance, the HST debate.

The outrage continues to mount this week among Coast residents after another animal was snared in an animal trap. A cat on Cochrane Road was caught in a Conibear trap Tuesday and is lucky to be alive.

While my disappointment over the Vancouver Canucks failure to win game seven and bring home the Stanley Cup has started to wane since last Wednesday, my anger and utter contempt for the post-game riot and those responsible continues to boil over - an

Disgusting, shocking, embarrassing - just a few words to describe the events that unfolded on the streets of downtown Vancouver Wednesday night following the Vancouver Canucks game seven loss to the Boston Bruins.

With the upcoming harmonized sales tax referendum, the issue of taxes is a hot topic around the water cooler. While I am a huge fan of water cooler talk, I have avoided this topic like the plague.

Is the harmonized sales tax good for B.C. or bad for B.C.? It depends who you ask these days, but like many things in life, there is a good case for either side in the ongoing HST debate.

It's my turn to cast an opinion on the Target Marine Hatcheries drama that has been unfolding at Sechelt council, and I find the whole thing absolutely ridiculous.