Opinion

Driving along the Sea to Sky Highway this week to Vancouver and back, I couldn't help wishing that technology could find a way to improve the abilities of some of the more well, unpredictable drivers I encountered.

As I was sitting in a hotel in Portland, Oregon (America's most boring city) watching the NBC Olympic broadcast, I found myself thinking that we truly are fortunate to live where we do.

Editor, Interesting article about Daniel Veniez's address to the Squamish Chamber of Commerce. Each time Veniez speaks, he drops little hints that he has "ideas" about reforming health care, but he has yet to elucidate what those ideas are.

The province's anti-illegal gaming team was axed even though an internal government report warned many of those crimes would go uninvestigated as a result. But the minister responsible has outright denied the 42-page report's findings.

It's high time to revisit some of the ambitious political pledges that were made back in November '08, during the municipal election campaign.

A phrase once used to look fondly upon a time of youthful naivety and uninhibited pleasure seeking was actually coined by Shakespeare's Cleopatra.

The Ministry of Children and Family Development is supposed to protect British Columbia's most vulnerable children. But safety outcomes for those children are no longer being used to measure the ministry's success in its primary planning document.

The Annual Guns and Hoses Charity Hockey Game at the Brennan Park Recreation Centre arena tonight (March 19) at 6:30 p.m. will be a fun event on the ice but it is all for a good cause.

The second-largest international sporting event in the world is coming to the Sea to Sky Corridor, starting tomorrow, with more than 1,300 athletes from 40 countries and countless international media coming to compete for glory right in our own backy

Editor, Taking a picture of a banner on face of the Chief (present for only five minutes!) was akin to taking a picture of yourself with the Chief in the background ["The Chief is not a billboard," Letters, The Chief, March 5].