Opinion

If you’ve been to some key community events in the past few months, you have probably noticed three new things are happening: Local food is being sourced, served and consumed, left-over food scraps are being saved to feed to local pigs, and reusable dishes and cutlery are being used instead of styrofoam or paper.

Hearing the news that the 9-1-1 service for our regional district is about to go live is fantastic.

Premier Christy Clark's " to B.C. Jobs Plan" took some hits as she was finishing her week-long publicity tour to roll it out. But the serious damage wasn’t from her political opponents on the left and right.

The defeat of the harmonized sales tax has nearly tripled B.C.’s deficit forecast for the current fiscal year, doubled it for next year, and left a $458 million gap for 2013 when the B.C. Liberal government has committed to balance the budget and call an election, according to Finance Minister Kevin Falcon.

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September 10 was World Suicide Prevention Day.

The B.C. Liberal attack ads on fightin' fisherman John Cummins go after his pension and his policies, and the website made him look like one of the aliens from Mars Attacks! In fact the whole B.C. political scene is starting to look like a bad movie from the 1990s.

B.C.’s private power producers held a news conference here in the capital last week, to plead with the B.C. government not to back down from its target of self-sufficiency in clean energy by 2016.

Thank you for publishing the article by Hannah Wright (August 17) regarding Hydro’s callous disregard for public safety by installing their “smart meters”.

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