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INQUIRING REPORTER: Should Vancouver still host its 4/20 protest?

INQUIRING REPORTER: Should Vancouver still host its 4/20 protest?

Vancouver’s annual 4/20 protest celebrates its 25th birthday this Saturday at Sunset Beach. Event organizers anticipate that attendance this year will exceed 100,000 people over the course of the day.
LETTER: Beware of elk, Squamish

LETTER: Beware of elk, Squamish

This is the second weekend in succession that we have visited the Squamish area and on both occasions, we have seen Elk crossing the road about six kilometres from the junction with the main highway at Alice Lake.
EDITORIAL: For elk’s sake

EDITORIAL: For elk’s sake

At least seven elk have been killed since 2012 along the stretch of Highway 99 between Cleveland Avenue and Industrial Way, according to data from the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, which is responsible for the highway and keeps track
OPINION: Squamish is Dolly Parton country

OPINION: Squamish is Dolly Parton country

It is often surprising where reporting takes you. The job of a journalist is a bit like being a guest at a smörgåsbord.
OPINION: Those X chromosomes

OPINION: Those X chromosomes

Was Jody Wilson-Raybould fired because she was a woman? It sounds preposterous. After all, it’s 2019. But for argument’s sake I’m going to say she was, at the very least, fired because she thinks like one.
OPINION: Will Squamish blow its stack?

OPINION: Will Squamish blow its stack?

It may come as a surprise, even to some long-time Squamish residents, that Mount Garibaldi (‘Nch’Kay’ ) with its tranquil snow-capped exterior is a potentially active stratovolcano.
LETTER: About that fentanyl package

LETTER: About that fentanyl package

I would like to comment on your story of Thursday, March 21, “Squamish mom finds fentanyl-filled package near elementary school,” in which it was revealed that a mom found a package containing the drug fentanyl near Squamish Elementary School.
EDITORIAL: Light at the end of the Squamish childcare tunnel

EDITORIAL: Light at the end of the Squamish childcare tunnel

A Squamish new dad says the final straw forcing his family to sell their home and move from Squamish is the lack of accessible and affordable childcare.
OPINION: Wildfires in spring — the new normal

OPINION: Wildfires in spring — the new normal

We’ve experienced something unprecedented this year in Squamish. A wildfire has already broken out — and it’s not even close to summer. On April 1, a wildfire was sparked in the Upper Squamish Valley.
OPINION: The end of the gasoline era in Squamish?

OPINION: The end of the gasoline era in Squamish?

We’ve been driving our first pure battery electric car, a 2019 GM Chevrolet Bolt, around Squamish for a couple of months now and it is liberating. I’ll never buy another fossil-fuel vehicle again, and here is why.