Opinion

Garibaldi Way is a brighter - and safer - place to walk this week.

The coals are fired up. The iron is nice and hot. OK Squamish, bend over - it's time to get branded. Tomorrow (Jan. 15) we will once and for all find out "what YOU think 'Squamish' should say to the world." Some may be shocked by this news.

The Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the Sea to Sky corridor took it on the chin in the last edition of The Chief.

It's a world away. There's nothing I can do. It doesn't mean anything to anyone I know. It couldn't happen here. If you're talking about the tsunami that hit southeast Asia late last month, you're wrong on all four counts.

You'd think being at the heart of the Sea to Sky corridor, right between the Olympic communities of Vancouver and Whistler - that's not going to get us sued, is it? - would be beneficial to Squamish.

On one of the many bulletin boards at Brennan Park there is a poster. It's not large or flashy, and unless you have a habit of reading bulletin boards, you'd totally miss it.

You know something's wrong with Ottawa when the biggest news story of the week involves stepping on a plush toy.

"How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?" - Page 1 of England's Daily Mirror. George W Bush re-elected. You know what this means don't you? The benefit of the doubt is now gone.

A few weeks ago a letter writer to The Chief asked if Squamish has an image problem. Part of his point was that out-of-town media come to Squamish with a set of prejudices that make us look bad no matter what story they've come to cover.

It is amazing that through all the recent discussion of the attempts by Vancouver 2010 Olympic organizers to remove non-sanctioned use of trademarked words and symbols that no one has pointed a finger to the provincial government for causing the curr