Opinion

Another case of a health system in disarray came to our attention this week. A Sechelt woman wrote us detailing a horrible experience she and her mother experienced recently. The daughter took her mother to St.

Whatever happened to giving the teacher an apple at the end of the day to say thanks for a job well done? It seems that notion has gone by the wayside with the news of a controversial teacher-rating website. Ratemyteacher.

I still remember the day as if it were yesterday. My roommate Justin and I were leaving our pad in Squamish to head to work at the Squamish Chief. I flipped on the radio and heard something I still to this day can't forget.

What was lost has now been found - well, replaced actually.

BC Stats recently put out a report filled with fascinating insights on the Sunshine Coast.

Dogs on beaches. It's a problem I've had for the past three years that we've had our dog Chelsey. She's a Sunshine Coast SPCA special that looks a bit like a lab and a bit like a Bernese mountain dog, though we're not sure of her actual breed.

Tag, you're it. Are we playing the age-old game where kids chase each other with increasingly louder shrieks? No, not by a long shot, although there are shrieks involved.

This week a promising young life was lost. A Boy Scout troop from Tacoma, Wash. was on the Coast on a summer trip. They were enjoying the Chatterbox Falls near Princess Louisa Inlet when disaster struck. Somehow a 17-year-old boy slipped and fell.

As I write this column on Thursday morning, we're into day six of competition at the Athens Olympics.

The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal's recent decision that the Davis Bay seawall needs safety improvements is a case of good news disguised as bad news. Jacqueline Moser's complaint to the human rights tribunal was far from frivolous.