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February 28, 2021 in Page One // POLICE – Hiker rescued after slipping from Peterson Creek trail onto ledge
February 27, 2021 in Armchair Mayor // ROTHENBURGER – School dress codes are needed but they’re hard to get right
February 27, 2021 in Charbonneau // CHARBONNEAU – Facebook’s ham-fisted response to paying for the news
February 27, 2021 in Local Voices // PETERS – NorKam dress code controversy shows how far men still need to evolve
February 25, 2021 in Life // POLICE: Wanted, names for a new litter of RCMP puppies

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FORSETH – Throne speech was just a rehash of what NDP was already doing

December 8, 2020 // 1 Comment

YESTERDAY (Dec. 7, 2020) THE THREE MAIN PARTIES opposed to the BC NDP in October’s Provincial election were united in one thing – a thumbs down to the Throne Speech [Continue]

FORSETH – NDP government’s PR department is working overtime

September 19, 2020 // 4 Comments

I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU, however it sure seems like the provincial government news department is working overtime this week, churning out release after release … [Continue]

FORSETH – Some alarming trends are developing in B.C.’s COVID-19 stats

September 4, 2020 // 3 Comments

BACK TO SCHOOL starts in a matter of days, and a trend is appearing in the COVID-19 situation that, to me at least, should be a matter of concern. Where we had previously [Continue]

FORSETH – The choice is now clear: Leslyn Lewis for Conservative leader

July 12, 2020 // 1 Comment

WHEN THE LEADERSHIP RACE for the Conservative Party of Canada was first announced, I decided I would once again back Erin O’Toole … just as I had in the 2017 [Continue]

FORSETH – With MacKay and O’Toole sniping at each other, choice is tough

June 29, 2020 // 2 Comments

AS MOST OF YOU are likely aware now, I have been seriously reconsidering my ballot ranking, for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada. Until a week and a half [Continue]

FORSETH – To Conservative leadership candidates: why do you want to be PM?

June 23, 2020 // 1 Comment

YESTERDAY AFTERNOON I finally had a chance to watch the Conservative Party English debate. No change in Derek Sloan not being a choice for me. The big change however is that [Continue]

FORSETH – What to expect when the B.C. Legislature goes back to work

June 20, 2020 // 1 Comment

MONDAY THE B.C. LEGISLATURE will be back in session. So what will be coming out of this new session? For the BC Green Party, interim leader Adam Olsen informed me that they [Continue]

FORSETH – The piper will have to be paid for all the COVID-19 spending

June 9, 2020 // 10 Comments

SOMEHOW I CANNOT help be feel a very LARGE disaster is looming on the near horizon – all of it due to COVID-19, and the accumulating provisos that have and continue to be [Continue]

FORSETH – Wherever we live, isn’t one Kent State enough for a lifetime?

June 3, 2020 // 2 Comments

YESTERDAY ON SOCIAL MEDIA, I posted a story from Kamloops This Week, in which Kamloops City Councillor Arjun Singh was quoted. According to the story, Singh criticized U.S. [Continue]

FORSETH – Trudeau’s quest for UN Security Council seat is just vanity

May 23, 2020 // 6 Comments

ON MARCH 16, 2016 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced our country would be seeking a place amongst the 10 non-permanent members of the United Nations (UN) Security [Continue]

FORSETH – Ground rules for returning kids to school need to be clarified

May 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

ON JANUARY 21 Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, and Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer, issued the first of dozens and dozens of updates on what became [Continue]

FORSETH – Few drivers on road but ICBC stubbornly refuses to give us rebates

May 9, 2020 // 3 Comments

JUST THE OTHER DAY our government owned Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, ICBC sent out a media release that began with the following eight words … “With [Continue]

FORSETH – ICBC saves millions and offers drivers peanuts

April 18, 2020 // 2 Comments

ACCORDING TO ICBC, total claims costs for the nine-month period of April to December of last year totaled $4.28 billion … that’s an average of just under five [Continue]

FORSETH – Those fractional COVID-19 numbers represent a lot of lives

April 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

DO WE CONTINUE THE TREND WE ARE ON, with government strongly encouraging people to self-isolate, and to maintain two metre spacing when we are out getting what should be [Continue]