Opinion

Age can conspire to make even your home a dangerous place. About a third of people aged over 65 years and who live on their own will experience a fall this year; for those over 85, it will be half.

This letter was sent to Vancouver Coastal Health and copied to The Chief for publication. At 11 a.m. Monday Nov. 9, the H1N1 vaccination clinic at the Squamish Brennan Park site was nearly empty.

Editor, Just after the turn of the millineum we, the citizens of Squamish, received a gift of 100 acres of prime waterfront and water-lot property worth $22 million. At the present time, almost a third of that value has been frittered away.

Editor, What are the people of Squamish going to hear next? If beavers are drowned in traps, when will the district be doing the same with an over-population of dogs and cats? Reasonably-priced alternatives - beaver bafflers or beaver-deceivers - are

Kool-Aid drinkers. That's how provincial New Democrats have often described the Liberals and their past tendency to unquestioningly follow party leader Gordon Campbell's decisions - at least when the cameras are rolling.

Dear Editor, I find it somehow sickly humorous that our province spends how many billions on the Sea to Sky Highway upgrades, the DOS is working on how many road upgrades around town, and we still don't have a good valley trail to link this sprawled

Editor, Several times the Squamish River Watershed Society has met with representatives from Anthem Properties (along with the Squamish Trails Society, Squamish Streamkeepers and the Squamish Environmental Conservation Society) to discuss the vegetat

With Halloween now behind us, the West Coast Railway Heritage Park shifts immediately into a month of preparations for our Christmas events.

I've always loved movies like Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell and the Matrix, because they challenge our notion of reality.

Editor, It has recently come to my attention that the developer of the new Holiday Inn is requesting the District of Squamish's permission to remove the treed buffer from along Highway 99, even though this proposed removal of trees appears to be dire