Opinion

I work in Vancouver most days during the week, and people in the city marvel that I commute “all the way from Squamish” daily.

A well-known vendor has been asked not to come back to the Squamish Farmers’ Market this year, prompting backlash from many loyal customers, and also understanding from those who want to put Sea to Sky Corridor farmers first.

Like many of us in Squamish, I was once new. I moved here from Montreal and started a family. Despite all of my time outdoors, my encounters with wildlife were few and far between. I wasn’t really paying much attention or looking for signs.

I a m told that this town once had a movie theatre. The famed Garibaldi 5 Cinema shut down a mere year before I moved in, and the almost mythical stories I hear about it speak of a different era.

S pring water bubbles from the ground at the headwaters of the Kakita River. Its stunning clarity and replenishment are startling.

What have we done to deserve this brush off by Squamish Farmers’ Market management who have taken away the vendor who provided the widest range of farm fresh food? He was a founding member of the market and the first farmer who supplied our local com

Once an NDP government elects a speaker, there will be 43 MLAs on each side of the House. It’s an untenable situation, says former attorney general Geoffrey Plant

Once an NDP government elects a speaker, there will be 43 MLAs on each side of the House. It’s an untenable situation, says former attorney general Geoffrey Plant

I have thought quite long and deeply about the repercussions of a mandatory voting system. I agree that people should be more engaged and informed and those people should vote, but do I really want the uninformed to vote.

B enjamin Franklin, the illustrious American polymath and a founding father of the Republic, once wrote that “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.