Opinion

Ten takeaways from Monday's English-language debate

I’ve said it before, but at this very moment, nothing could be so heavy on our shoulders. For those my age, it’s our graduating year.

The B.C. legislature resumes sitting on Monday for a brief fall session. The government has a few policies it wants to advance, and the Opposition has a few (hundred) complaints it wants to air.

It is fantastic that qathet Regional District [“ qathet Regional District receives climate change recognition ,” September 19 ] and City of Powell River [“ City of Powell River receives recognition for carbon neutrality ,” September 24] are taking su

The recent drop in temperature, mostly felt in the evening and early morning, is a sign of two things: fall has arrived, and so has hockey season.

If you are an average, health 30-something, uber-fit, kale-loving, clean-living parent with a young child, a jogging stroller and a dog that wears a bandana — you will likely get the flu this year, be knocked down for a few days and get back to work

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I’m afraid when I think about the planet becoming so warm that we can no longer live on it. This is an intolerable feeling. I feel this especially when I look at children and wonder if there will be a world they can inhabit.

The formal federal election call was made Sept. 11, but there was a moment in B.C. two days earlier that weighs heavily on one of the major elements of the campaign — climate change. B.C. watches that aspect from a unique position.

What is even more disturbing than the breakdown of our ecological world is the wholesale breakdown of civility that non-children (by virtue of birth year only) are expressing toward our youth [“ Editorial: Taking action ,” September 20].