Opinion

EDITOR, We are sending this letter to your community on behalf of many Kamloops citizens who are opposed to development of an open-pit copper and gold mine immediately adjacent to, and partly within, our city's boundaries - the Ajax mine .

Editor's note: This letter was sent to Squamish's mayor and council, and forwarded to The Chief for publication. I had to use sandpaper to remove a seven-centimetre-wide stain on my vessel's water line recently.

From 2008 to 2012, per-capita consumption of fuels subject to British Columbia's carbon tax fell by 17.4 per cent, while during the same period, per-capita gross domestic product in B.C. fell by 0.

EDITOR, Re. "Chapelle has no appetite for GMO ban," Chief, July 11. Gordon Neish and Susan Chapelle should not be agreeing on how Genetically Modified Food is going to feed the world.

Our weekend to celebrate is upon us as the annual Squamish Days Loggers Festival runs today (Aug. 1) through Monday (Aug. 5). A new activity has been added this year and it is On The Farm Country Market's Campfire Building contest tonight (Aug.

There is currently nothing atop my refrigerator. I haven't been able to say that for oh, at least seven years. Before that I lived in an old Second World War-era house where the fridge was recessed under some cute but useless cupboards.

I hope that out of all the vegetables you grow, you have made room for tomatoes. In my opinion, tomatoes are the No. 1 vegetable (OK, technically a fruit) to grow.

Happy summertime! Have you been downtown lately? Wow, what a beautiful showing of community spirit! A huge thank you to Tracey Saxby and all those incredible members of our community who came out and made downtown beautiful.

Responses to the question of whether people would use the thrust-cushion vehicle (TCV) fast ferry if it were deployed on the Squamish-to-Vancouver route were mostly affirmative, with qualifiers ranging from "if it didn't cost too much" to "if it didn

"Whoa that ain't good." Those are words you never want to hear from certain people. A mechanic, doctor, or in my case a while ago, a plumber.