Opinion

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful." George Orwell I have new least favourite word: consultation.

Illegal gaming on First Nations reserves "continues unabated and is highly visible," according to a 2008 internal government report obtained by Public Eye via a freedom of information request.

Another fine day on the West Coast and I am heading into my garden. Today's job is to attack my overgrown raised vegetable bed and give it a good cleaning out. There is a motive to this clean up madness.

The following was sent to the District of Squamish was copied to The Chief for publication. I was parked in front of Billie's Boutique this afternoon. There were rose petals on the sidewalk as decoration.

In celebration of International Women's Day and to support the Howe Sound Women's Centre, the play The Vagina Monologues will be on stage at the Brackendale Art Gallery tomorrow (March 6) and Sunday (March 7). The doors open at 7 p.m.

The Big Show is over folks and what a spectacle it was. Rarely has any event so forcefully captured the imagination of the whole nation. Locally everything went pretty smoothly, notwithstanding a few transportation and parking snafus here and there.

The following letter was copied to The Chief for publication.

Editor, I would like to express my gratitude and respect to the management and staff at the Howe Sound Inn and Brewing Company. The atmosphere in the pub the past two weeks has been absolutely electric.

Finance Minister Colin Hansen has said he doesn't know exactly how many bureaucrats will be getting pink slips in the coming fiscal years.

Editor, Like a lot of people around here, I felt the Olympics as an intrusion that I have paid good tax dollars for.