Opinion

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.

There’s no doubting the sincerity behind B.C.’s new climate change plan. The problem is that this is the second time taxpayers have seen this story unfold.

You are a star and so am I. We are all stars. Or more accurately, we are all made from the same biomolecular material as the shelter of stars that luminously cover the night sky: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur.