Opinion

Both sides of Knight Road – creek to creek – have been a disgrace to the city for the last two years. In the spring, 2011, a lady and I cleaned up weeds, which Public Works picked up upon request.

The defeat of the HST Friday doesn’t change one fact about B.C.’s finances: We’re still spending more money than we are bringing in.

Most of us are fortunate enough to never need the skills of Chilliwack’s emergency response teams. But when we do, it’s good to know they’re there.

According to a recent report in Philosophical Transactions published by the Royal Society, Britain’s Academy of Sciences, it’s time to step up the pace about species conservation.

He would never quite admit it, but former premier Gordon Campbell’s push for self-sufficiency in clean electricity has always looked to me like a long-term strategy to export hydroelectric power. It still looks that way

Finding a good spot isn't easy

Light rail in the Valley loomed closer recently when Via Rail, the federal government contractor supplying passenger rail to the freight lines, was turned away.

Once again the health of the population of the Fraser Valley is at risk from the threat of another incinerator with the potential to burn a million tonnes of refuse a year produced from the Greater Vancouver metropolitan area.

Call them thugs, idiots, deadbeats, vandals, looters, low-life, thieves, or whatever. But that searing image of rioters trashing and burning neighbourhoods in London and other major U.K. cities last week has left people everywhere gasping for answers as to what the heck happened.

As a member of the Chilliwack Secondary School Envirothon Team, representing the Province of B.C. this year and last, and on behalf of our team, Connor Ford, Zach Greenwood, Celeste Newbury, Andrea Bernard, I want to send a BIG thank-you to this wonderful community who supported us in our efforts to go to New Brunswick and compete internationally.