Opinion

ICBC to increase rates ICBC is asking the BC Utilities Commission for a 4.9-per-cent increase in basic vehicle insurance premiums. This is in addition to the 5.5-per-cent increase approved last year for a total of 10.45 per cent over two years.

That first whiff of fall is in the air. Then the long stretch through September and October as we await the sporadic snowfalls that create the snow base on which we depend. It is the season to take stock. And perhaps think of new ways to hide.

On a soggy July afternoon, my attempt to find Purebread's secret cake-baking facility in Function Junction is falling flat.

The word on the streets is that Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL to its many enemies) is going under. In January it lost control of the city of Ramadi in Iraq after a long siege; in June it also lost Fallujah.

When I read "6 oz. of redneck heaven" on the menu of the Coastal Kitchen Café in Port Renfrew, my eyes light up and my mouth starts to water. Unfortunately, it's 8 a.m., and the referenced "Coastal Burger" isn't available.

In diversity, there is strength

Protecting our jobs I am writing this letter in response to Louise Taylor's back-to-back letters to the editor titled 'Protecting our old growth' (Aug. 11) and 'Logging practices need revision' (Aug. 18).

The canary in the Whistler resort is starting to choke and wheeze. The metaphor for the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) could also be used for the province of B.C.

It's the people. It's always the people. Last week, nine bears were killed in three days in Revelstoke, a Bear Smart community, because people were not securing garbage and ripened fruit on garden trees.

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.