Opinion

Dear editor, Any elected representative who walks out of a session because he or she isn’t getting his or her way and causes the assembly’s business to come to a halt should be considered to have resigned.

Dear editor, Canada is facing a number of challenges at the federal, provincial, and local levels. Today, we are facing one particular issue that touches on all these levels of government.

Dear editor, With DND apparently slapping down the new hospital site, that chunk of real estate will now be available to build a much larger homeless shelter next to Crown Isle. The DCBIA merchants and their mouthpieces on Courtenay council will be jumping for joy.

Dear editor, Re: Proposed coal mine over Baynes Sound 'isn't an easy ask,' admits Comox Valley MLA. Who do we believe?

There are many ways government can spend our tax dollars badly — and many ways to spend them well. Would the B.C. government spend our money wisely if it launched a campaign about our health, to teach us something we should already know?

Dear editor, It is encouraging to see the amount of press being given to bicycling in the Comox Valley. Environmentally friendly, inexpensive, healthy exercise...

My summer road trip to the B.C. Interior began as soon as the Trans-Canada Highway reopened at Chilliwack. The crew had worked through the night to clear a mudslide studded with rocks the size of Smart cars, along with a couple of actual cars.

Dear editor, Municipal elections are coming up this fall. Issues I’d like on our Comox ballot are three referenda.

Dear editor Re: cartoon (Record, July 8). Trilogy lands (Cayet) being in the boundaries of the Village of Cumberland are therefore a part of the Village of Cumberland. Everyone who has any knowledge of the history of this project already knows this and to not mention or downplay this in their website and advertising promotions makes one wonder if this is through ignorance, arrogance, an oversight, deliberate exclusion, a marketing scheme or some other reason or all of the above.

Dear editor, I am concerned about the new 'town’ called Cayet proposed by the Trilogy Corporation. I am deeply concerned about water. Since decommissioning the Hamilton lake Dam in 2006, Cumberland has come close to running out of water each summer.