Opinion

After listening to last week’s panel members at the town hall meeting about affordable housing, it is official: the housing crisis has made its way over the water from Vancouver to Powell River.

As Christy Clark and her provincial government triumphantly commit nearly $1 billion toward affordable rental housing in BC this year, here we are in Powell River unable to address the issue.

Highway solution The Internet [“Internet speeds economic development,” September 14] is man’s greatest feat of engineering, ever. Throughout the world it changes how people think and act.

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Driving patterns and speed limits are not something we instinctually know the minute we sit behind a wheel.

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Solution sought When I started reading the August 31 issue of the Peak, my dilemma was which story to comment on. There were definite reasons for commenting on all of them.

The major issue with the dilapidated hotel at the former Inn at Westview [“Dilapidated hotel taints town centre,” August 31] appears, to me, to be the toxins mentioned in the article: asbestos in the sheet rock and the black mould.

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Although investigations are still ongoing, by all accounts of Monday’s plane crash near Safeway, a pilot from Coquitlam, originally from Powell River, may have saved some local lives as his own ended.