Opinion

I a m told that this town once had a movie theatre. The famed Garibaldi 5 Cinema shut down a mere year before I moved in, and the almost mythical stories I hear about it speak of a different era.

S pring water bubbles from the ground at the headwaters of the Kakita River. Its stunning clarity and replenishment are startling.

What have we done to deserve this brush off by Squamish Farmers’ Market management who have taken away the vendor who provided the widest range of farm fresh food? He was a founding member of the market and the first farmer who supplied our local com

Once an NDP government elects a speaker, there will be 43 MLAs on each side of the House. It’s an untenable situation, says former attorney general Geoffrey Plant

Once an NDP government elects a speaker, there will be 43 MLAs on each side of the House. It’s an untenable situation, says former attorney general Geoffrey Plant

I have thought quite long and deeply about the repercussions of a mandatory voting system. I agree that people should be more engaged and informed and those people should vote, but do I really want the uninformed to vote.

B enjamin Franklin, the illustrious American polymath and a founding father of the Republic, once wrote that “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Ever since arriving in town, I get flashbacks whenever I throw sausages on the frying pan. Standing in line at the grocery store, it’d just been a week since I moved here. A woman in front of me started chatting to me.

It’s happened again. A mother black bear and her two cubs were killed in downtown Squamish just days after a two-year-old bear was shot in Britannia Beach.

I spent last night after a long week of academia and travel running on a trail regaining my sense of self. I cannot help but be consumed with thoughts surrounding Squamish’s rapid, unplanned growth.