Opinion

Editor,In the eyes of Wal-Mart detractors, the Arkansas-based chain embodies the worst kind of economic exploitation. It pays its 1.2 million workers an average of only $9.

Amy Shoup School Trustee In last month's column, I covered two of the four goals the School Board will be pursuing in the 2004-2005 school year. Thesewere student learning and technology.

The issue: Facilities Referendum WE SAY: Get more details and present it again in November Back in December, when the District of Squamish announced its intention ask the voters' approval to spend $20 million on new recreation facilities, we said in

Editor, With respect to the upcoming referendum and in reference to Bryan Raiser's comment in his Cynical Sunshine column in the Feb. 11 edition of the Chief that "...

"Open your eyes, we've already won the lottery." -J. McCormick There are different types of luck. There's money luck, and being lucky in love, but like everything else in life, the main luck is location, location, location.

There are things I wish I didn't know. Some of those things are just the quirks of life and growing up. I could probably do without knowing raw potatoes can be cut with a butter knife. And so can cheese for that matter.

Editor, The idea of whether the timing of this referendum proposal is right or wrong is really not as relevant as to whether this party has earned the trust of this community and that we can accept the costs as correct.

The game is over - and both sides have lost. The National Hockey League (NHL) and its players have managed between them to squander the 2004-2005 season.

Re: the referendum on Public Amenity and Recreational Facilities Loan Some of the current councillors are equating this proposal to obtaining a pre-approved mortgage; I prefer to equate it to buying a pre-approved pig in a poke.

When the B.C. Liberals made history by becoming the first province in Canada to set fixed election dates, they took a large element of surprise out of provincial politics.