Opinion

City of Powell River staff and council should be applauded for their intention to limit the scope of short-term rentals in Powell River [“Staff propose limitations to short-term rentals,” August 31].

Standing beside a small array of equipment that, to a layman, looked more suitable to power-washing your driveway than cleaning up after the Exxon Valdez, Canada's fisheries and oceans minister tried last Friday to soothe West Coast oil-spill fears.

I recently saw a Malt-O-Meal cereal commercial featuring a mother and her two children sitting in the kitchen of their home.

When B.C.’s community non-profits join forces, they do it based on key principles.

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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.