Opinion

The 2021-2025 Financial Plan Assumption Report was presented at the City of Powell River finance committee meeting of August 27, announcing the start of 2021 budget deliberations.

In fewer than 10 years we reach a tipping point and enter an unknown future. As a mother and scientist, I feel the urge of becoming active to secure my two-year-old son’s future.

Let the games begin, and the rhetoric.

What do you think about this week's editorial cartoon? BC's general election day is October 24. Are you ready to cast your vote?

After six months of the NDP government pounding home a message about the need for total unswerving commitment and “100 per cent, all-in” focus on the biggest emergency in 100 years — COVID-19 — Premier John Horgan has switched gears and called an Oct

It is not an election the province needs. It is an election John Horgan wants. His governing NDP has no requirement for any new mandate.

It comes as no surprise that our country’s premiers apparently see the pandemic as the perfect time to put the touch on the federal government when it comes to tackling the biggest consumer of tax dollars within all their own budgets.

We don’t want to be told our physical pain or mental distress is “all in our mind.” When distraught with symptoms of an illness or dealing with crushing chronic pain, it’s understandably the worst thing someone can be told.

A majority of people who live in qathet Regional District are adults. BC Ministry of Health, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) and the Office of the Provincial Health Officer are treating them all like children.

It took six months for the NDP government to release the economic recovery part of B.C.’s ongoing COVID-19 response. That’s a long time, given that the government committed about $5 billion in no time flat on various emergency relief measures.