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The West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky riding may witness a hostile campaign even before Liberals are pitted against Conservatives.

There was much to contemplate for Squamish's old soldiers and their much younger counterparts during the town's Remembrance Day service on Saturday (Nov.11).

Squamish's one-day jail to raise bail money for the Kidney Foundation - the Round-up 4 Research - raised $23,555 on Tuesday (Nov. 14).

No spill this time; lack of tugboat muscle suspected Sylvie Paillard spaillard@squamishchief.

After 18 months of unsuccessful negotiations and two overwhelmingly supportive strike votes, Extra Foods workers took to picket lines at 7 a.m. on Thursday morning (Nov. 16), leaving only one open grocery store in town.

In a week where Canada faced international criticism during the UN Climate Conference for replacing the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions with the Conservative government's Clean Air Act, Sea to Sky residents may perhaps breath easier with t

Sylvie Paillard [email protected] The Squamish Oceanfront Development Corporation (SODC) has seen another resignation from its board following the collapse of a partnership with private development company Qualex-Landmark.

Quest University Canada, due to open in the Garibaldi Highlands in under 10 months' time, has passed two important milestones this past week.

"The worldwide rise in house prices is the biggest bubble in history. Prepare for the economic pain when it pops." So warns a recent story in adding "never before have real house prices risen so fast, for so long, in so many countries".

Approximately 3,200 local natural gas customers may see bill increases of up to $90 annually following the recently announced amalgamation of Terasen Gas Squamish with its parent company, Terasen Gas Inc. (TGI).