Opinion

Condo residents will develop a sinking feeling once the B.C. government’s moves this week on the insurance crisis are fully digested. They are ineffectual in the short-term and will only make a mild difference over time. B.C.

They did it again. After a dreadful weekend performance on Route 3 highlighted by overloads, delays and unbelievable walk-on passenger lineups at Langdale, BC Ferries released a “summer schedule” Monday that completely stiffed the Sunshine Coast.

“You never want to let a serious crisis go to waste.” That’s what Rahm Emanuel, chief of staff to then-incoming U.S. President Barack Obama, once said during the 2008 recession. A crisis allows an opportunity to do things not thought possible before.

Clearly, many Powell River residents are against bottling of water, but how many are against buying bottled water? More than 200 people took the time to write a letter to the city opposing council’s recent decision, which directed staff to prepare an

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Lately I can’t sleep. The weight of the world’s problems are so heavy. I look out into the world overwhelmed by blatant racism, a worldwide pandemic and our urgent climate crisis.

On June 14, Northern Sunshine Coast Ferry Advisory Committee chair Kim Barton-Bridges sent the following letter to premier John Horgan, transportation minister Clair Trevena, Powell River-Sunshine Coast MLA Nicholas Simons, BC Ferries CEO Mark Collin

June is Pride month, an event steeped in history that carries with it joy, pain, anger and profound importance for so many people in BC each year.

I am very worried about the spraying of herbicides on the brush in the qathet Regional District region [“ qathet Regional District reacts to herbicide/pesticide application ,” June 4].

Last week’s uproar over letting an outside company move into Powell River to bottle water (our water? I hope not. Someone else’s water? Why bother?) tugged at me long into the first night I read about it.