Opinion

Glasses went up to the myriad of businesses nominated and selected to win awards at the 25th annual Powell River Chamber of Commerce Business Awards this past weekend.

What do you think about this week's editorial cartoon? Do you have plans for Valentine's Day, or is it just another day?

There is a certain type of small-town claustrophobia. I’m sure everyone has felt it. It’s that itch that takes years to scratch, that burning feeling in the pit of your stomach that simply makes you feel trapped and held down.

The request by shíshálh Nation for the province to change the official names of Wilson Creek, Madeira Park and Saltery Bay to the original she shashishalhem names met with some early and predictable resistance from up Pender Harbour way.

The reason Premier John Horgan ducked all public comment about the legislature blockade was because he was too steamed to stand in front of a microphone.

The point that Premier John Horgan is trying to make is that his government cares about people and the other guys, meaning the B.C. Liberals, didn’t. His NDP government cares about everybody — “she, he, and they.

When the B.C. legislature resumes sitting this week, there is a minor alignment of the assembly’s seating plan. This carries with it potentially major implications.

Sometimes, particularly when it leaves one party dissatisfied, the law is an inelegant instrument.

A commentary by an assistant professor at the University of Victoria who teaches the history of disease and medicine. His book Epidemics and the Modern World was recently published by the University of Toronto Press.

It seems hard to fault a target of five per cent property tax increase [“ Draft financial plan indicates tax increase for average Powell River home ,” January 24], with crime rates soaring and a $70-80 million waste treatment plant project on the hor