Opinion

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Plus one: Powell River city council, thank you for listening and heeding the message you heard from a groundswell of Powell River citizens.

I’ve been riding my mountain bike up the trails around Powell River for about five years. We are truly blessed to have such nice trails and volunteers who maintain the trails and build new ones.

I was recently at the second [City of Powell River] council meeting in a row where the room was filled to capacity.

Picture a typical international post-secondary student enrolled at a B.C. institution. There are — or were — more than 150,000 of them, and their lives have been uprooted even more than most people’s due to COVID-19.

Ho hum, another extension this week of the state-of-emergency declaration to give politicians more powers to cope with the pandemic.

Dave Formosa says Class of 2020 is 'one to go in the record books'

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.