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July 10, 2020 in Page One // POLICE – Arrest made in connection with body found near apartment block
July 10, 2020 in Feedback // LETTER – Attack by a pit bull is traumatic, can take years to recover
July 10, 2020 in News // LETTER – Owner of border collie describes sudden attack by pit bull
July 9, 2020 in Community // Long-time former educator, TNRD chair Walter Winter dies at 96
July 9, 2020 in City Issues // RITCEY – Aberdeen development must be sustainable

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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]

FORSETH – We may see food shortages but we’ll be OK if we shop responsibly

March 25, 2020 // 0 Comments

THIS PAST SUNDAY Minister of Agriculture Lana Popham commented on two areas of concern regarding the B.C. farm, fish and food sector. The first of these was seasonal labour. [Continue]

FORSETH – Virus pandemic presents challenges for blood supply

March 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

EARLIER I CHECKED WITH Canada Blood Services, as I had noticed talk about a potential blood shortage, if people stopped donating blood due to the COVID-19 virus. Delphine, a [Continue]

FORSETH – Justin Trudeau is ashamed of the rich resources of our country

March 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

LAST WEEKEND, the Prime Ministers Office (PMO) announced that Justin Trudeau would be speaking at the global mineral exploration and mining convention on Monday. I wondered [Continue]

FORSETH – Building stats bring strength of B.C.’s economy into question

February 22, 2020 // 4 Comments

IT’S PRETTY WELL KNOWN that if a government – any government – is going to have bad news, or is hopeful something will be missed, it will be delivered late on a [Continue]