Opinion

Housing and homes are topical conversation subjects in Powell River these days.

Everybody knew the B.C. NDP was keen to retool public construction projects to put more apprentices and under-represented groups to work.

Like air, science today is invisible, easily taken for granted, easily attacked. As a life-long science nerd, I take the present postmodern attack on science personally, and it scares me. Here’s why.

The campaign on whether or not to change B.C.’s voting system is officially underway, but it looks like a tricky race to handicap. The vast majority of the public simply does not spend a lot of time thinking about voting systems.

“Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me,” is a familiar childhood refrain.

What do you think of this week's editorial cartoon on the topic of overfishing around Powell River ?

Our old first-past-the-post voting system isn’t fair. It doesn’t work to support democracy. It works for political insiders. Those insiders know how to use the system to get elected without having support from the majority of all voters.

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The end of Greyhound bus service in Western Canada will tear away connections that Canadians have relied on for generations. Greyhound Canada announced this week that it is ending almost all service in B.C.

‘Cash-for-kids’ nixed, but who pays for remedy owed to teachers remains unclear