Opinion

With real estate prices in Squamish up 21 per cent in the past 12 months, some people can no longer afford housing at all or are taking to the bushes for shelter.

From the moment you arrive, it’s easy to see something is a little different about Squamish’s downtown homeless shelter. At the Squamish Helping Hands facility on Third Avenue, small greenhouses have been erected in the space near the entrance.

Squamish is so water-blessed that was runner-up in B.C. Water Week’s Best of the Best Tap Water Challenge. It all starts with our great water source.

Spring has sprung earlier than usual, and thousands of travellers are flocking to the great out-of-doors, but BC Parks officials admit there is a problem.

I’ve stood on top of smoldering debris, mere feet away from licking flames, snapping pictures while Alberta fire crews battled a house and forest ablaze.

It’s easy to assume that running a business in Squamish is easy and lucrative, especially when you see the owners serving lineups of customers, seemingly raking in cash.

It’s time to change fossil fuel consumption or we will have no food.

Canada is a proudly multilingual and multicultural society with two official languages: English and French.

Worldwide, 200 million children are affected by low height-for-age or low-weight-for-height, which can cause a weak immune system and decreased cognitive capacity.

The moment they are born can be terrifying. Even though there are 7.4 billion people on Earth, a new baby can be profoundly life-transforming to a family from the moment he or she makes the first cry for milk.