Opinion

I want to start this column with a great big thank you to all our advertisers who have continued to run your ads. A second big call-out and thank youto the dozens of readers that have made a direct financial contribution over the past three days.

It's the Undercurrent's 45th birthday this week. We'd planned to make a bigger deal of it but life had other plans.

The BIAG and Camp Bowen Society launch initiatives such as home delivery and medical transport, text to phone relay and phone access to the Bowen Island Undercurrent

If you can put up with the ads, there's probably enough free TV in Canada to last you through the outbreak

I will start paying $200 per year in land rent retroactively to the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueam and Te’mexw Nations on whose lands I have resided from the moment I moved here in 1999.

An opinion piece by Anton van Walraven in a recent Undercurrent (Jan. 30, page 6) explored further the issue of the impact of liquefied natural gas.

'Herring are the foundation of the marine ecosystem of the Salish Sea, as they are along the entire B.C. coast’ writes local filmmaker Bob Turner

Editor’s note: the following is a public statement from the Bowen Trail Riders Association president.

“What do you think of Woodfibre LNG?” I am often asked. Not that I work for the company –– I am doing the opposite –– but folks know who ask me the question.

I must confess that I am not a fan of artificial turf (AT). It is plastic and we are already making a mess of our planet by over-consuming this stuff and chucking it about without a care.