Opinion

All eyes will be on Parliament Hill over the next month as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and New Democrat leader Jack Layton begin a game of let's make a deal to see if a spring election is in the cards.

Moving to a new place is always an experience, but making the decision to move to the Sunshine Coast was an easy one.

It all started when two Nova Scotia high-school students took a stand against bullying. David Shepherd and Travis Price saw a Grade 9 boy at their school being bullied and harassed.

The new session of Parliament is not even two weeks old, and already the party attack ads are in full swing.

Recently directors at the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) voted to give themselves a small raise of 1.8 per cent and a per meeting payment increase to $111 from $103.

Driving while talking on a hand-held cell phone is now illegal and is also very dangerous. Seems like a simple concept for people to grasp, but it appears that too many are still not getting the message. For a little over a year now, police in B.C.

I don't know about any of you, but I'm starting to get worried. Here it is the beginning of February, and I still don't have my invitation to William and Kate's wedding.

Is Sechelt open for business, or are they pulling up the drawbridge and putting out the closed sign? It would appear to be the latter, based on the puzzling decision Sechelt council made Wednesday afternoon.

I still remember my first interaction with Habitat for Humanity. Back when I first started as editor in 2003, I was covering Gibsons council and also covered a Sunshine Coast Regional District meeting - all in the same week.

After 11 years, all they need is 30 minutes - 30 minutes away from helping the Sunshine Coast become the caviar capital of Canada.