Opinion

Editor’s note: Jason Loutitt is an ultra marathon competitor, formerly of Squamish, who has been featured in these pages both for his racing successes and for overcoming a drug addiction.

Developing the WhistlePunk Hollow Adventure RV park is a bad idea.

The B.C. government is portraying the impact of changes to ICBC’s premiums as positive to two-thirds of B.C. drivers. But it used a contrived model based only on the first year.

About once a year, the perpetual bee in my bonnet' starts buzzing. It's usually around this time—peak touron season—which, oddly enough, coincides with peak local moron season.

Editor's note: The Chief's weekly editorial represents the opinion of the newspaper.

I read with dismay in The Squamish Chief that the Squamish boat launch at the Yacht Club will be removed soon. Woodfibre LNG, apparently, will not be allowing boat launch use or any other by the public at Darrell Bay for at least four years.

With another fiscal year in the books, our provincial auto insurance provider is sharing what has become an all-too-familiar annual tale of woe. According to stats released by ICBC, there was a record high 350,000 crashes in 2017.

“If it weren’t the long weekend…I’d suggest we pack up and hit the road,” Nature Boy said. “If we didn’t have big expenses coming up, I’d agree,” I responded. Our house is at a certain age.

This is in response to the letter from Woodfibre LNG last week regarding their Darrell Bay four-year exclusive use agreement.

We’ve had more than our fair share of tragedy in the last few months. Most recently, rescue crews were scrambled to try to and save a woman from Burnaby after she was swept away in Rubble Creek on Sunday.