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November 28, 2020 in Local Voices // PETERS – Canada Post plays the Grinch in forcing out letters from Santa writer
November 27, 2020 in Feedback // LETTER – Hospital staff needs community’s help on parking issue
November 27, 2020 in Charbonneau // CHARBONNEAU – Language and mood of second COVID-19 wave have changed
November 26, 2020 in Editorials // EDITORIAL – CER report that says TMX might not be needed is too late
November 25, 2020 in Feedback // NATIONAL PULSE – Terry Fox run-away choice for new five-dollar banknote

PETERS – Canada Post plays the Grinch in forcing out letters from Santa writer

IZZY McQUEEN has a lot more time on her hands these days. Izzy is one of the Kamloops Blazers’ most ardent boosters, but is more well-known in Kamloops as Santa’s most diligent local helper. Inundated with thousands of letters from Canadian children [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Language and mood of second COVID-19 wave have changed

THIS SECOND WAVE of the pandemic feels quite different than the first. In the Spring, shoppers emptied store shelves of toilet paper –a curious indicator of what’s important in people’s lives. A sense of domesticity swept the nation as flour flew [Continue]
EDITORIAL – CER report that says TMX might not be needed is too late

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ALL ONE HAS TO DO is drive past the airport or up the North Thompson Valley along Westsyde Road to know that the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is going to happen. Protests won’t stop it. Environmentalists won’t [Continue]
NATIONAL PULSE – Terry Fox run-away choice for new five-dollar banknote

By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE November 25, 2020 – Sir Wilfred Laurier, Canada’s 7th Prime Minister, has graced the nation’s sky blue five-dollar bank note for almost 50 years. First appearing in 1972, the days of Laurier (also the namesake of a Coast [Continue]

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MEDIA – A KGB guide to subverting the press to your own agenda

November 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

By LEE HARDING Frontier Centre for Public Policy ‘I CANNOT BUT WONDER why are people pushing for socialism and communism?” an elderly friend wrote on Facebook. “Are [Continue]
DR. BONNIE HENRY – Why B.C. doesn’t have a universal mask mandate

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SUZUKI – U.S. election shows need to bend the arc toward justice

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U.S. ELECTION – Trump takes a leaf out of autocrat playbook with victory claim

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LETTER – Hospital staff needs community’s help on parking issue

November 27, 2020 // 6 Comments

I AM WRITING TO SHED LIGHT on the current staff parking situation at Royal Inland Hospital. I would like to start with a letter I wrote out of frustration at an already [Continue]
NATIONAL PULSE – Terry Fox run-away choice for new five-dollar banknote

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LETTER – What’s the answer to parking for RIH health care workers?

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NATIONAL PULSE – Vaccine news doesn’t change vaccination intentions

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