Opinion

September always seems like a better month to begin a new year instead of January. After a mostly unstructured time, activities get back on a regular pattern.

Judging by what I’ve read in the Peak , and based on what I heard myself at the two public town hall meetings regarding cannabis in the city, it would seem our pleas fell on deaf ears [“Planners recommend limits for cannabis sales,” August 3].

Powell River residents go to the polls on October 20, six weeks from now.

There’s a lot of snickering and snide jokes about the B.C. Supreme Court decision this week to not recognize the sasquatch. But it doesn’t take an outdoor-education degree to tell who’s laughing the hardest — the sasquatch himself.

An essential feature of meaningful dialogue is the obligation to listen attentively to the words of the other.

For decades, British Columbia has been a popular destination for Canadian retirees.

According to the B.C. Wildfire Service, 420 of the 1,950 wildfires that created havoc across our province this year were caused by humans.

When I heard about the shooting in New Brunswick, I was hurt. All these years I thought, despite the multiple shootings in the USA, that Canadians were more rational.

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I am a faithful reader of Murray Dobbin’s Counterpoint, but this week [“Flight of Fancy,” August 24] I was disappointed, even though he may have raised a legitimate concern about Gaoshi Holdings (Canada).