Opinion

To deactivate your Facebook account: Click the "account" menu at the top right of your Facebook page Select "Account Settings" Click "Security" in the left-hand column Click "Deactivate your account." Done. I'm free. Unfettered. Unshackled.

On the ferry over to Hornby Island where the family and I spent eight blissful (read: sporadically blissful) days and nights camping I had an insight. No matter how stealthy you think you are as a parent, someone is ALWAYS watching.

Before we proceed any further, full disclosure is in order here. I am a boomer, a member of that formerly eminent generation born between the end of the Second World War and the early 1960s.

Did you know that you could have as many as 50,000 thoughts a day? Imagine if many of those 50,000 thoughts were negative ones.

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.