Opinion

Comments are being made that our ways of electing MLAs and MPs should be changed [“Counterpoint: Citizens versus political parties,” June 22]. This is complete hogwash.

It’s not as big a deal as it appears at first glance, but some pipeline news Tuesday suggests the rebirth of the LNG dream is still underway. No one has delivered yet, but it’s in active labour.

I read the recent anti-abortion event article with amusement [“City responds to anti-abortion event at Willingdon Beach,” June 22]. I think the pro-life number of abortions in Canada per year come under the heading of facts made up on the spot.

The government is giving away $1 million to voting-system partisans. Chief electoral officer Anton Boegman has the authority to divide that amount evenly between two camps that will campaign in the fall referendum on whether to change B.C.

Back in early 1972, I started with Powell River company as a employee. All the paper machines were running except numbers one and two. I started casual on the paper machines and all over the mill, then went to the woodmill.

Gone are those days when in-person meetings and shared knowledge through face to face meetings were common. Today, the world has become a global village, and this global village has only come in place because of advancement in technology.

International Choral Kathaumixw and Pacific Region International Summer Music Academy provide economic boost to City of Powell River

Listen up, writers, journalists, bloggers and members of the human race: I am hereby serving notice that I am fed up with the ageism and sexism that manifests itself every single time a woman over the age of 50 makes headlines for anything.

What do you think of cartoonist Wendy Brown's take on Canada's cannabis bill receiving royal assent?

Three decades have passed since 18-year-old Tanya Van Cuylenborg and her 20-year-old boyfriend, Jay Cook, were slain in Washington state. They were on a trip from their home in Saanich.