Opinion

A recent Peak article [“Recreation centre escapes service cuts,” February 28] highlights the struggles of city council to balance the 2018 budget without increasing residential taxes beyond the cost-of-living index.

Office of the Auditor General of BC reports that local governments are the front lines of adaptation to climate change risks.

I found the logic in Leslie Armstrong's viewpoint in the Peak [“Viewpoint: Treatment plant threatens habitat,” February 28] to be quite flawed and incomplete. It struck me as more “Not in my back yard” as opposed to true environmental concerns.

A recent request by City of Victoria Police Department chief constable Del Manak asking BC Ministry of Social Development and Housing to consider changes to income assistance cheque distribution draws attention to an ongoing burden placed upon first

Should certain businesses and businesspeople receive privileged treatment from city council? Watching the behaviour of the current council since it was elected in 2014 begs the question, who does this council, which I have called the “new majority,”

Comments from St. John Ambulance (SJA) provincial headquarters personnel in the recent Peak front page article [“St.

Jack Barr is completely correct in describing the Inn at Westview as a quagmire [“Inn at Westview agent appears before committee,” February 21]. But what he failed to mention is his role in creating the quagmire.

What do you think of this week's cartoon?

Building must come down It compels me to write, after reading about complexities, quagmires and conundrums, in regard to tearing down an old building [“Inn at Westview agent appears before committee,” February 21].

This is the 126th and final editorial I will write for Powell River Peak , as I move on from my double position here as publisher/editor to pursue the next chapter of my career.