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FORSETH – This consumer is fed up with the Great Grocery Ripoff

January 5, 2022 // 2 Comments

I AM GETTING more and more discouraged by the lower quality of products, while still paying the same prices or higher. Just a FEW examples would be added amounts of liquid to [Continue]

FORSETH – Horgan gov’t in no hurry to remind us of carbon tax increase

December 31, 2021 // 2 Comments

IT SEEMS INEVITABLE that this government will continue, over and over again, to give me fodder to chastise them – although in this case I, along with nearly all British [Continue]

FORSETH – These NDP buffoons don’t have a clue

December 19, 2021 // 2 Comments

I’D LIKE TO TAKE a moment to read the following two articles which caught my attention this week. First up is this Letter To The Editor which ran in the Salmon Arm Observer [Continue]

FORSETH – British Columbia government gets an ‘F’ in mathematics

November 22, 2021 // 3 Comments

LESS THAN A MONTH AGO, in an email dated Oct. 26, 2021, the BC Auditor General stated: “For the 10th year in a row, we have qualified our audit opinion on the [Continue]

FORSETH – Sick of all the self-righteous BS about saving the planet

October 26, 2021 // 6 Comments

TODAY, AMONGST the many media releases I receive on a daily basis, came one from the BC Government’s Environment Ministry [Continue]

FORSETH – Is province paying attention to report on automation of economy?

June 22, 2021 // 3 Comments

EARLIER THIS SPRING, the Conference Board of Canada released a report entitled, “Preparing Canada’s Economies for Automation” … Then, one week ago, the Conference [Continue]

FORSETH – Better Internet is needed but why should taxpayers foot the bill?

June 9, 2021 // 1 Comment

THIRTY-FIVE POINT SIX ONE EIGHT MILLION dollars! In little more than 10 weeks (since March 26), that is how much the government of British Columbia has outright given to [Continue]

FORSETH – Age and income are not ‘barriers’ to getting vaccinated

May 20, 2021 // 2 Comments

THE HEADLINE of a news story in the Vancouver Sun on Tuesday (May 18), stated: “Vaccine information not reaching young adults in B.C., poll shows.” Leading off the [Continue]

FORSETH – Kevin Falcon will make it three in slim field for BC Libs’ leadership

May 17, 2021 // 1 Comment

UPDATE: As predicted by Alan Forseth in this column, Kevin Falcon did, indeed, announce his candidacy last night (May 18, 2021) for the leadership of the BC Liberals. TONIGHT [Continue]

GINTA – Our city parks deserve better than to be commercialized

May 17, 2021 // 7 Comments

IT WAS ALMOST a decade ago while contemplating a move to Kamloops that my sons and I first visited Riverside Park. They splashed and splattered at the waterpark and we had a [Continue]

FORSETH – It’s past time to stop the scum who murder with drugs

May 4, 2021 // 10 Comments

THE TRAGEDY of hundreds of lives lost due to drugs, addictions, and a poisoned drug supply was reported on once again last week — but was anyone listening? Have we tuned [Continue]

FORSETH – Government bafflegab shines through in jobs announcement

April 19, 2021 // 2 Comments

BALDERDASH (senseless talk or writing; nonsense) … bafflegab (pretentious language, especially bureaucratic jargon) … claptrap (absurd or nonsensical talk or [Continue]

FORSETH – Latest jobs report shows economic recovery a failure for women

April 10, 2021 // 4 Comments

WHILE RAVI KAHLON, Minister of Jobs, Economy Recovery and Innovation, was quick to issue a statement Friday morning (April 9, 2021) on the latest Stats-Can employment [Continue]

FORSETH – 30 years ago, Rita Johnston became B.C.’s first female premier

April 3, 2021 // 0 Comments

FRIDAY, APRIL 2, marked the 30th anniversary of Rita Johnston becoming Premier of British Columbia. No matter whether your political beliefs are in line with them, these days [Continue]