Opinion

Healthy eating can sometimes take a backseat during the holiday season, only to reappear come Jan. 1. With busy schedules and festive gatherings, it can be challenging to carry healthy habits through the winter months.

Dilapidated, abandoned, sorry-looking, pilloried, The Inn at Westview deserved a much different ending than the slow neglect that lasted for years.

Tips from the Credit Counselling Society of B.C. on how to manage holiday shopping: • Use cash as much as possible and try to avoid credit cards. • If using a credit card, keep it simple and stick with the one with the lowest interest rate.

Now that permits are in place and demolition of the former Inn at Westview building owned by Seaboard Hotels is underway, an issue that has plagued multiple generations of City of Powell River council is on its way to being resolved.

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I’m writing this letter in frustration because of the ALR (Agricultural Land Reserve) and municipal decision regarding the loop on Hemlock Street. [“ City of Powell River has two courses of action to deal with Hemlock Street loop ,” December 7 ].

Arguing the cul-de-sac debacle on legal grounds does little to address the elephant in the room [“City of Powell River has two courses of action to deal with Hemlock Street loop,” December 7 ]. This is as much an ethical issue as it is a legal one.

Today in bad parenting we have an item from the B.C. Lottery Corporation.

Social media is a form of electronic communication. Millions of users create online groups, pages, communities to share information, pass ideas and personal content (images, videos or messages).

The thorny issue of taxing carbon has split this country’s political leaders and has further pushed B.C. Premier John Horgan and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau into each other’s arms.