Opinion

Editor's note: The weekly editorial represents the official opinion of the newspaper. PTSD, or post traumatic stress disorder, has always affected people, but we are just starting to understand what it really is.

Last Thursday evening, Premier John Horgan and B.C. Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson went head to head in a televised debate over the ongoing referendum on electoral reform. The NDP is pushing for B.C.

A ccountable direct local representation is a hallmark of our current first-past-the-post electoral system, a system where constituents know their member of the legislative assembly and the MLA is responsible for the needs of the communities he or sh

If less than a quarter of the population support the idea of moving to a proportional representation model for electing the provincial legislature, does that strengthen democracy or weaken it? That’s not a rhetorical question.

Re: About LNG subsidies (published Oct. 19 online.) When the government of B.C. introduced its LNG Framework in March 2018, it allowed the LNG industry to be treated the same as other industries in B.C.

1.Many thanks to Paul Demers for his timely article in The Chief on Oct. 25. Representation and accountability are the basic pillars of a healthy democratic political system.

I hoped, when I read the two Letters to the Editor, Woodfibre Responds to Criticism (Oct. 11, by Woodfibre LNG) and For LNG (Nov. 1, by BC LNG Alliance), that they would include a justification for fracking.

More than two dozen candidates threw their hats into the ring in the recent municipal election. Seven emerged victorious. What stars aligned in their favour to seal the deal? Let’s start with Karen Elliott.

I am afraid that many do not understand how estuaries form and inexorably progress to forested/drier land. For an estuary to continue to exist as a wetland, there must be progressive growth at the seaward end. This is hardly happening in Squamish.

Volunteers and trail crews keep trails in tip-top shape