Opinion

Thank you for drawing everyone’s attention to my responsibility as your elected representative, and for the opportunity to respond to the editorial “Anyone seen Goldsmith-Jones?” from Thursday, Oct. 20.

In response to Steven Hill’s column “A lesson in compassion,” Oct. 13. What a touching article to read.

R eporters try not to personally call out politicians. The reason is simple: We need them for quotes and information.

T he history books tell us the Athenians of old congregated in the Agora and the citizens of Rome assembled at the legendary Forum. Since the time of the Aztecs the residents of Mexico City have gathered at the Zócalo.

Picture this: Billionaire B.C. businessman Jimmy Pattison comes across a farmer with 1,100 kilos of brussel sprouts. They’re picked and loaded but the farmer’s only route out is cut off by a landslide.

Natural gas rates for Squamish customers won’t be adversely impacted by Woodfibre LNG. FortisBC would like to correct statements made by Eoin Finn, of My Sea to Sky, in his letter to the editor, “Higher gas rates to come?,” which ran on Oct. 6.

I read with some interest that the municipality is talking about suspending the tax free status of the Oceanfront development, with the exception of one councillor.

M y seven-year-old son came home from school twice the other week crying inconsolably. No, he wasn’t bullied by another child, or upset because he had been reprimanded or done poorly in a class exercise.

D oes local journalism matter? You bet it does. Community newspapers employ thousands of journalists in every corner across our community and across our great country.

W hy is this municipal administration chasing a concept that will likely bear fruit about the same time Beelzebub’s sweltering subterranean redoubt freezes over? Recently all six members of council and Mayor Patricia Heintzman attended the Union of B