Opinion

Nanaimo is one of the safest NDP seats in B.C., so a byelection there would normally be considered as exciting as a line change in a hockey game. But not this time around.

BC’s new climate plan outlines an ambitious suite of measures projected to cut carbon pollution from the built environment by 40 per cent by 2030.

How province funds students with special needs remains contentious

Speculation a 2019 B.C. election is rampant because of the fragility of the NDP-Green alliance that forms the current government. Don’t bet on it.

We share a common world, the one and only world, with all other living things. We are intimately related to and dependent upon other living things in many different ways. In fact, our present and future health and well-being is tied together.

I couldn’t let these items pass when I read that Keith Anderson was retiring [“ Powell River clothing store to close later this month ,” December 13]. His dad owned the [Anderson’s Men’s Wear] store first.

I am reminded of an old joke about the restaurant: “Waiter, what’s this fly doing in my soup?” “The backstroke, I believe.” If you don’t find that funny – understandable if not – there is a local similar situation even less amusing.

I recently had an unpleasant experience in one of the dog parks in town, which managed to combine some of the worst aspects of our society at this time. This viewpoint is, therefore, about the global and the very local.

Lower Mainland school districts such as North Vancouver School District are phasing out the honour roll. Fewer students are showing up on these lists of achievements each report card until they eventually no longer exist.

What a beautiful land, with vast expanses and resources, exceedingly rich, given the population of just 37 million in the second largest country of the world. This was my opinion until St.