Opinion

Seeing the first person in the western world receive a COVID-19 vaccination this week made the faint light at the end of a long tunnel flicker and appear brighter.

A few years after the Okanagan firestorm, I stayed in a Kelowna bed and breakfast and heard the hosts’ stories about what it’s like when your entire neighbourhood burns down in a few moments.

We read with disappointment about the proposed two-tier or three-tier rate increase for the north harbour [“ Committee recommends rate increase for Powell River’s north harbour ,” November 30].

I’m a retiree, with only limited years of driving left.

The last time politicians convened at the legislature for a throne speech, so did hundreds of pipeline protesters, who blocked all the entrances, physically impeded staff and disrupted the government’s moment in the sun.

Our hospitals are under enormous pressure from a tiny lethal virus, forcing our health-care system to navigate an unchartered pandemic by prioritizing care.

Federal rules banning passengers from staying in vehicles on an enclosed deck have been in place since 2001, but they were temporarily lifted due to the pandemic before being reinstated in September .

December is a spending and giving month. Pandemic or not, people will be buying and exchanging gifts for any holiday they choose to celebrate, even if celebrations and get-togethers are cancelled or lower key than usual.

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An excerpt from Converging Waters: The Beauty and Challenges of the Broughton Archipelago When fish farms first appeared on the coast in the late 1970s, they seemed like an interesting idea.