TAUBE – Scott Gilmore (who?) and his crusade to save conservatism
A CONSERVATIVE PARTY member recently said he was fed up with the direction of various federal leadership candidates. He wants to lead a discussion about Canadian [Continue]
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CHARBONNEAU – Please stop treating B.C.’s Interior like it’s a colony
PREMIER CLARK’s plan for job growth in B.C.’s interior is a failure. Her plan to extract Liquefied Natural Gas from the interior evaporated. She is sending more raw [Continue]
WALSH – Bigger venue needed for consultant’s report on Ajax proposal
WE NEED to prepare for citizen involvement in the final report by SLR Consulting. There was a huge interest and public turnout just over a year ago when SLR went public with [Continue]
KINSELLA – Fess up to your mistakes, laugh at yourself, then move on
WHITE HOUSE press secretary Sean Spicer standing at the door to a United Airlines plane, sipping a Pepsi. If a picture is worth a thousand words, and it assuredly is, then [Continue]
SUZUKI – March for science, march for Earth Day, march for humanity
SCIENCE ISN’T everything. But it is crucial to governing, decision-making, protecting human health and the environment and resolving questions and challenges around our [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Suppose we hired 200 doctors and paid students’ tuition?
SUPPOSE, just for a moment, that B.C. decided to hire and pay a salary to doctors willing to locate to communities outside of the Lower Mainland. For sake of argument, [Continue]
POT DEBATE – Here’s the stone cold truth: marijuana clouds reality
THERE’S SOMETHING quasi quaint about the federal government introducing legislation to legalize marijuana. News reporting on the budding bill has generously employed [Continue]
VIEWPOINT – Was it just a happy coincidence, or meant to happen?
WE WERE JUST about to turn away from a bus stop in Aberdeen, when we realized that we couldn’t take the bus. My friend and I forgot our student cards — for the first [Continue]
NEWSTROM – Our brain cells are like the sand of the Thompson River
LAST WEEK the mind topic was my bashed finger (the ring finger on my right hand) and the embarrassing question, did I arrange my own victim situation (18 bloody [Continue]
FORSETH – What happened to ‘scientific evidence’ for legal age on pot?
AT THE AGE of 18, without parental consent, what legal rights do individuals in British Columbians have? Well it’s pretty minimal. Basically you have the right to vote [Continue]
MacFADYEN – New Zealand legislation gives river legal status as a ‘person’
A RIVER in New Zealand has been given legal personhood status and will have the same rights as a human being. It’s the first time in the world that a river has been legally [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – From coffee cups to bombs, we’re obsessed with big
Big is so important to us that we can’t even bring ourselves to use the word ‘small’ I WAS OUT and about one morning this week when I felt a need for [Continue]
TRAVIS – Report shows missed opportunities by Liberal government
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD once wrote: “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” It’s the missed opportunities over the 2012 healthy ministry [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Opioid use rises despite crisis; feels like 1908 again
AM I THE ONLY ONE not surprised that the opioid crisis has worsened? Despite the widespread distribution of naloxone kits to save lives from fentanyl overdose. Despite [Continue]
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