Opinion

I read The Chief with interest last week. In the unsigned editorial it advanced the premise that meeting late at night is in conflict to our stated position of having open and transparent government. The issue was a motion that was made at 11 p.m.

Sickened by the Liberals' New Era for B.C.? Scared to go back to the NDP? Not feeling very Green? There might just be an alternative to eating your ballot on May 17, 2005.

Pick your metaphor: the bell has been rung. The genie has left the bottle. The horses have bolted. The Squamish Business Park is well on its way from its original purpose as an industrial park to essentially another retail centre along Hwy.

The man most people know as Tuna got some well-deserved recognition this week. Mayor Ian Sutherland gave Laroy Watt a volunteer recognition award on Tuesday at council's regular meeting.

I went to bed with a smile on my face. In the morning I woke up with the sinking feeling it was all just a dream.

The biggest reality TV show in Canadian history wrapped up Monday night - Survivor Ottawa: the federal election. Like every good reality show, it had people buzzing around the water cooler, dissecting who said what the night before.

For the first time in what seems like forever, your vote counts when you go to the polls on Monday (June 28).

This election, more than any federal election before it, is proving to be the most difficult for me. There's only three days left to figure out who gets my 'X' and I still don't know whose name my two pen strokes will go beside.

Everyone has them - those phrases that make you want to clutch your hair and scream at the top of your lungs until it stops. "Hot enough for ya?" is a classic. "Wassssssup" is a new contender.

All those cars on the Sea to Sky Highway this weekend aren't headed for Whistler - they're coming here. Literally thousands of riders are descending on Squamish for two major events - and a good number of them won't be riding bikes.