Letters

Letter to the Editor: Larock/Hanacek op-ed misses the point

Letter to the Editor: Larock/Hanacek op-ed misses the point

Op-ed misses the point of the public discussion on Vancouver Island’s remaining old-growth forests.

Letter to the Editor: Larock/Hanacek op-ed misses the point
Indigenous protesters occupy Marine Harvest salmon farm at Swanson Island, east of Port Hardy, August 2017. (Facebook)

LETTER: First Nations defending their waters

Response to Tom Fletcher from salmon farm occupiers

  • Nov 6, 2017
Indigenous protesters occupy Marine Harvest salmon farm at Swanson Island, east of Port Hardy, August 2017. (Facebook)
Letter to the Editor: Not all First Nations are against fish farms

Letter to the Editor: Not all First Nations are against fish farms

“Many First Nations people are in fact gainfully employed by Marine Harvest.”

  • Nov 2, 2017
Letter to the Editor: Not all First Nations are against fish farms
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Forestry debate Op-ed misleading

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Forestry debate Op-ed misleading

Jens Wieting from Sierra Club BC gives his two cents.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Forestry debate Op-ed misleading
Letter to the Editor: We live off the backs of those who go before us

Letter to the Editor: We live off the backs of those who go before us

“It makes me angry hearing school board employees selling insurance.”

Letter to the Editor: We live off the backs of those who go before us
Letter: Time for Canada to move away from production and transport of fossil fuels
Letter: Time for Canada to move away from production and transport of fossil fuels

Liabilities of a rapacious industry

Although climate change is a reality, our reliance on it to shrug off certain environmental changes is often overdone.

  • Oct 19, 2017
Letter to the Editor: RDMC Chair has contrasting view to recent editorial

Letter to the Editor: RDMC Chair has contrasting view to recent editorial

“We simply do not and cannot make decisions behind closed doors.”

Letter to the Editor: RDMC Chair has contrasting view to recent editorial
Fire at Eutsuk Lake in Tweedsmuir Provincial Park consumes forest interspersed with beetle-killed pine trees, 2014. (Laura Blackwell/Lakes District News)

LETTER: Scientific consensus favours human-caused warming

Sierra Club B.C. campaigner responds to Tom Fletcher column

  • Oct 5, 2017
Fire at Eutsuk Lake in Tweedsmuir Provincial Park consumes forest interspersed with beetle-killed pine trees, 2014. (Laura Blackwell/Lakes District News)
Letter to the Editor: Municipal officials are not paid fairly for their work!

Letter to the Editor: Municipal officials are not paid fairly for their work!

People who choose to serve their municipality don’t do it for the money.

Letter to the Editor: Municipal officials are not paid fairly for their work!
Letter to the Editor: RDMW chair fires back

Letter to the Editor: RDMW chair fires back

“I do not know a single elected official on the North Island doing what they do for the cheque.”

Letter to the Editor: RDMW chair fires back
Former faller says wildfire response mismanaged

Former faller says wildfire response mismanaged

The initial firefighters should be loggers and first responders living in the same area as the fire

  • Sep 2, 2017
Former faller says wildfire response mismanaged
Speed limits are raised to 120 km/h on Highway 97C and other divided highways in remote areas, July 2014. (Black Press files)

Speed and weed aren’t helping ICBC

Readers call for electronic enforcement, car insurance competition

  • Aug 31, 2017
Speed limits are raised to 120 km/h on Highway 97C and other divided highways in remote areas, July 2014. (Black Press files)
Letter to the Editor: The Liberal government of 1923 manufactured a social problem in a suspect manner.

Letter to the Editor: The Liberal government of 1923 manufactured a social problem in a suspect manner.

“There is a new drug in the schedule” was altered to add, “cannabis indica”.

Letter to the Editor: The Liberal government of 1923 manufactured a social problem in a suspect manner.
Grizzly bear triplets with their mother. (B.C. Ministry of Forests)

Killing bears, one way or another

B.C. hunters speak out about grizzly hunt, wildlife management

  • Aug 23, 2017
Grizzly bear triplets with their mother. (B.C. Ministry of Forests)
Letter to the Editor: Humankind is overdue for an alien invasion

Letter to the Editor: Humankind is overdue for an alien invasion

An interesting perspective on humanity from Frank Sterle Jr.

Letter to the Editor: Humankind is overdue for an alien invasion
The crime scene one day after James Hayward was fatally shot by a Port Hardy RCMP officer in 2015.

Letter to the Editor: IIO admits they made mistakes in Hayward investigation

Dear Editor, My name is Nora Hayward, my nephew James Hayward was…

The crime scene one day after James Hayward was fatally shot by a Port Hardy RCMP officer in 2015.

Letter to the Editor: Springer Celebration, did we learn anything?

Dear Editor, It is good news that the reuniting of a young…

Letter to the Editor: Port McNeill Museum hard to find

Letter to the Editor: Port McNeill Museum hard to find

Dear Editor, We want to express our thanks to the town of…

Letter to the Editor: Port McNeill Museum hard to find

Truck loggers congratulate Quatsino, companies on agreement

Re: Gazette story ‘Quatsino First Nation signs agreement with three forestry companies.’…

  • Apr 25, 2017