Opinion

During each election campaign there is considerable discussion around how to engage young people. They have an even lower percentage of turnout than other age categories.

It must surely be to the relief of everyone involved that students returned to classes this week at Vancouver Island University (VIU) after a month-long strike and the looming threat of a cancelled semester.

Regional district OCP review As a land owner and resident of Powell River Regional District I am concerned that right now anybody can clear cut their property across the road from most anyone’s home and turn it into a gravel pit.

by Charlie Tatham Alex Muir’s Grit (Liberal) votes balanced Charlie Hearn’s Tory votes. The roads were plugged with snow; the only way to get to Jackson’s polling booth was through the fields. It was a cold, blizzardy day in Oxford county.

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If Powell River residents are fed up with escalating ferry fares, now is the time to let voices be heard. BC Ferry Commissioner Martin Crilly has given preliminary approval to rate increases for the next four years.

MP support proves successful In 2003, logging contractors received funds from the BC Forest Revitalization Trust in exchange for the loss of their logging contracts resulting from the implementation of the Forest Revitalization Act .

By Glenn Nelles In my original rant to the Peak editor a year or more ago my sole interest was to express my opinion that what this town needed was a new library.

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City of Powell River officials won’t be able to dodge, much longer, the responsibility for clearing up old landfill sites.