Opinion

Powell River recently won a prestigious award for its corporate efforts to reduce the city’s carbon footprint.

With the provincial election just weeks away, leaders of BC’s three main parties are front and centre, making promises and criticizing plans of their opponents.

Viruses have been a, or maybe the, primary influencer of human evolution. When looking in the mirror today, reflecting back is someone mainly shaped by pathogens and their ongoing battle with humans.

The quick and dirty B.C.

You’d think a province that just plunged billions into debt due to a sudden global health emergency would be a little strapped for cash at the moment. But the parties vying to run B.C. are still promising vast sums of money to individual voters.

The televised leaders’ debate may not determine the election result, but it will likely play a critical role in the election. The Oct.

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Now that the NDP-Green ­partnership has exploded with the election call, a lot of ­accumulated resentment is spilling out. The first grievances had to do with Premier John Horgan’s betrayal of the B.C.

Transport Canada is no longer allowing passengers to stay in the cars on enclosed decks during crossings.

Giving new meaning to be kind, be calm and be safe