Opinion

To the Editor, With an unblinking eye on my television set, where Al Jazeera documented a deposed octogenarian despot scurrying across Egypt to his Red Sea hideaway to begin counting his billions, I listened to the BC Liberal leadership debate on CKNW radio.

To the Editor, Port Alberni City Councillor John Douglas’s notice of motion to increase pay rates for the mayor and council is ill-advised, premature, and poorly thought out.

With winter soon to be at our backs and spring rapidly approaching, what better time to share with you a few shooting tips.

As the Liberal leadership race gets down to its final days, and the new premier of B.C. is selected by party members, B.C. residents should take some time to contemplate the provincial budget, released last week to a collective yawn.

Propane tank, plastic lawn chair and a cooler. This isn’t a list for a spring picnic, but instead a few of the many items pulled off of the beaches of Coos Creek during a shoreline cleanup by members of Canada World Youth, the Hupacasath First Nation and West Coast Aquatic.

January was Alzehimer's Month and the people of Port Alberni stepped up, said an Alzheimer Society of B.C. official.

Liberal leadership hopeful Mike de Jong talks a good game, but one Port Alberni reader says he won't forgive de Jong for his TFL initiatives and their impact on forestry communities.

Unless Port Alberni city council has a better idea to deal with the city's homeless issue they should support Kuu-us Crisis Society's project location, a local resident says.