Opinion

The pabulum that the taxpayers are fed is the policing and increased infrastructure costs are what is driving the tax increases. Salaries and wages is without any other costs is over a $1,000 per year.

The lady exited the staff room with a clipboard tucked under her arm and took her seat, just in time for the little ones to get into the water. I nudged the poolside mom next to me, “What’s that all about?” I asked.

I applaud Port Moody-Coquitlam MP Fin Donnelly’s Bill C-228 to control salmon farms destruction of wild salmon. I am a coordinator of the Squamish Streamkeepers, which was formed in the 1990s when coho salmon stocks collapsed on the West Coast of B.

This council makes big productions about everything. We have drive-thrus, we have distracted driving; council can’t connect the dots. Seems like a no brainer to me and most people I talk to.

I t is no secret that an unprecedented transformation is underway in Squamish. And what is becoming all too apparent is that some folks are capitalizing on the rapid growth washing over this community, while others are being left on the fringes.

S ometimes we seem stuck in the 1990s. While I would argue the music was pretty great back then – grunge was “all that and a bag of chips” – this country’s relationship with its First Nations really wasn’t.

In a recent post in The Squamish Chief, Woodfibre LNG’s VP Byng Giraud said he must “cut costs to make the business profitable.

T his isn’t going to be a popular opinion, but hear me out. I think when it comes to professional sports, there should be no limits on cheating, doping or whatever needs to happen to win. I mean it.

I am an aboriginal youth and recently graduated June 17 from Howe Sound Secondary as​ co-valedictorian with a great friend, and metres away from the Squamish Yekwapsum Village​.

It’s important to clarify the facts about our operations and proposed compressor station at Mount Mulligan.