Editorials

Parksville Mayor Marc Lefebvre has announced he will not be seeking a second term as Mayor when municipal elections roll around this fall, adding he will remain in Parksville. He says he is looking forward to spending more time with his wife Janet and family.

The arrival of the hot weather and the classic cars to the Parksville Qualicum Beach area this past weekend, has without a doubt marked the start of this year’s visitor season.

Worlds Oceans Day events were held this past week, and in Parksville, Courtenay-Alberni MP Gord Johns participated in a beach cleanup.

We’re definitely into a weather pattern already where we can no longer throw caution — or cigarette butts — to the wind.

Quibbles over symbolic rainbow crossings belie critics’ genuine concerns

B.C. residents will have three choices for electoral reform in a November referendum.

The BC Coroner Service recently released the number of drug deaths in March. To pretty much nobody’s surprise, it’s not good news.

Today in the Parksville Qualicum Beach News , our readers will find the first part of a multi-part series on the issues surrounding Kinder Morgan’s proposed expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, investigating the history, science, Indigenous reaction, politics and economics of the controversial project.

This may be the new spring weather

Saturday, Oct. 20 will mark local election day in British Columbia, when voters will go to the polls to elect councillors for the City of Parksville and the Town of Qualicum Beach, directors for the Regional District of Nanaimo and trustees for School District 69.