Opinion

A uthor James Thurber once said, “There are two kinds of light — the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.” As Squamish grows, we should be aware of light pollution both on the personal and municipal level.

D i d you know that every year, council and staff at the District develop and adopt a five-year Financial Plan? All municipalities are required to adopt a five-year Financial Plan yearly under the Community Charter, the key piece of legislation that

I have travelled coast to coast and never seen a whale in my life. So, whenever I’m travelling on the ferry, I keep one eye on a book and one eye out the window.

T he issues of homelessness, addiction and mental health can sometimes seem overwhelming to the point they are easy to shrug off as too complex or too far removed from our workaday lives for us to think too much about.

When you suddenly realize you are ‘that guy’

D id we elect a collection of empty Gore-Tex jackets to sit at the municipal council table, or as they say in Alberta, a crew that is all hats and no cattle? With less than a year before we go to the polls again, more than a few members of this commu

A long time ago, I had a brief obsession with watching boxing. Eventually, I got the idea that for my New Year’s resolution, I’d get in shape and join a gym. What kind of gym came to my mind? A boxing gym, of course.

I t is a positive step forward for Squamish women that there is now a clinic providing abortion and birth control services here. This is not an effort to debate the morality or ethics of abortion.

S quamish is an oceanfront community and like the majority of B.C.’s coastal communities, we find ourselves threatened by sea level rise.

Mahatma Gandhi said: “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs but not every man’s greed.” Conspicuous consumerism is rife today.