Opinion

This year's municipal budget deliberations are shaping up to be a taxing exercise in more ways than one.

For football fans, this upcoming weekend is arguably the biggest of the year. The Super Bowl goes down this Sunday (Feb.

Maclean's magazine recently published a cover story titled, "99 stupid things the government did with your money.

Forget tobacco companies, the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the Christian right. The Internet is the biggest political powerhouse mover-and-shaker lobbyist these days.

Editor's note: This letter was sent to John Weston, Member of Parliament for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country. It was copied to The Chief for publication. I am no, I was, one of the silent majority who accepted things as they were.

EDITOR, I wanted to give a bit more perspective on the Letters to the Editor written by Dorte Froslev in last week's Squamish Chief ("Canary in the coal mine?").

"Think inside the triangle." Given its location in the mathematically shaped area defined by Interstates 580, 5 and 205, so reads the trademarked motto chosen by the City of Tracy, Calif.

I've lived in Squamish for a decade or so, been editor and a writer for its award-winning community newspaper, as well as its tourism bureau - but I still never really know what to call the people who live here.

People who don't play video games usually stereotype gamers as either 14-year-old boys, obese and nerdy 40-year-old men who still live in their parents' basements, or - thanks to The Big Bang Theory - nerdy and lovably odd physicists.

EDITOR, Re. "Minister visits Squamish," Chief, Jan. 13. The Brackendale Winter Eagle Count may well be the canary in the coal mine for B.C.'s wild Pacific salmon. Federal Minister Keith Ashfield (Dept.