The Editor, Coquitlam residents are somewhat disengaged in the civic process. This is evident by the low turnout at public hearings, council meetings, town hall meetings ...
Omniscient and Limited Omniscient Points of View. A narrator who knows everything about all the characters is all knowing, or omniscient. A narrator whose knowledge is limited to one character, either major or minor, has a limited omniscient point of view.
Then come the big drawbacks of using Third Person Omniscient: The distance between the characters and the reader that's inherent in the use of an Omniscient narrator. This is something that many writers struggle to overcome.