Opinion

After enduring more than a year of news stories about NAFTA negotiations with the United States, it is finally over.

As one who enjoys the bounty of the Salish Sea and upper Sunshine Coast of BC, and in light of the recent occupation of salmon farms and huge escape of non-native Atlantic salmon at a Washington salmon farm, I offer the following comments: The eviden

Everyone, at some point in their life, will need to use lube. There is no shame in using lube; it does not make you a failure, defective or anything other than human.

After years of inadequate funding, our provincial heath-care system is on life support. About 700,000 British Columbians have no GP. Wait-lists for various types of surgery — particularly hip and knee operations — are unacceptably long.

In the midst of a week of political arguments about liquefied natural gas and emissions, B.C. Ferries tabled a new long-range plan that touches on the same issues.

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Canadian citizens look forward to the second Monday in October for a variety of reasons. For some, it is all about the long weekend and having additional time away from work to spend with family and friends, inside or outdoors.

At 72 pages this week, packed with local advertising, news items covering a wide breadth of topics, features, letters, submissions, classified ads, public notices, event listings and almost-perennial golf scores, Coast Reporter is living proof that a

Murals can energize space, bring people together and make them feel really positive, we heard from the artist overseeing the work on a mural behind Powell River Public Library [“Mural brings colour to community space,” September 21].

After engaging in what has effectively been some shadowboxing the past year, the NDP and the B.C. Liberals are about to begin the main bout as the legislature has resumed sitting.