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December 11, 2019 in Editorials // EDITORIAL – At last, something done about speeders in Westwold, Falkland
December 11, 2019 in Bepple // BEPPLE – CN’s new coal contract presents challenges for Kamloops

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FORSETH – Take B.C. politics out of the back rooms, give it back to the people

July 31, 2017 // 1 Comment

THE OTHER DAY a B.C. political acquaintance, Sean Upshaw, and I had an online / offline conversation. This followed up on my blog post of Saturday, July 29 entitled, [Continue]

FORSETH – Good-bye, Christy, let the next chapter in B.C. politics begin

July 30, 2017 // 1 Comment

EARLY IN THE MORNING Friday, I go outside to work in the yard and the next thing I know Christy Clark had resigned. Let me tell you, if I’d known sooner, that was all [Continue]

FORSETH – Conservative merger: focus on the 95 per cent, not the other five

July 24, 2017 // 2 Comments

NEXT DOOR in Alberta over the weekend, members of the Progressive Conservative Party — and the Wildrose Party — both agreed to a merger. And how was that hailed by the [Continue]

FORSETH -Thoughts on John Horgan’s picks for British Columbia’s new cabinet

July 19, 2017 // 1 Comment

TODAY’S POST is a mix of my own thoughts … a B.C. government news release … and background information on one of John Horgan’s new cabinet ministers [Continue]

FORSETH – Milobar, Stone, please tell government to end delays on Ajax

July 17, 2017 // 13 Comments

WITH ALL the troubles and strife people in the Cache Creek/ Ashcroft area … and all the way through, and just past, Williams Lake are going through … it’s [Continue]

FORSETH – Khadr settlement shows Justin Trudeau is unworthy to lead

July 9, 2017 // 14 Comments

SO OUR DAISIES and sunshine … photo bombing … life is grand. PM Justin Trudeau, along with his Liberal government, has issued a formal apology to a terrorist [Continue]

FORSETH – Answering the commenters on column about next B.C. election

July 3, 2017 // 3 Comments

I LOVE HOW politics can bring out such strong and passionate beliefs. It IS great for our democracy, and keeps it strong! For those who read my last post titled, “BC [Continue]

FORSETH – BC Liberals will win next election, Greens will be wiped out

June 30, 2017 // 8 Comments

THURSDAY IN the legislature, a long drawn-out limp to the finish line played out for the BC Liberal Party. It began this afternoon with parries between Weaver and Clark [Continue]

FORSETH – Could BC Conservatives make a comeback, with right leader?

June 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

WHEN FORMER MLA and Cabinet Minister Bill Bennett muses aloud about what’s to become of the so-called big tent free enterprise coalition, people really do need to have [Continue]

FORSETH – Death sentence faced by garbage bears is our fault

June 20, 2017 // 5 Comments

WHY EXACTLY is the City of Kamloops not issuing fines to people who put garbage out the night before pick-up? Last Thursday, in an article (Garbage pointed to as culprit in [Continue]

FORSETH – Guess which govt news releases were before election, and after

June 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

CARE TO GUESS which of the following news story starts, from the B.C. Government News on Demand website, ran prior to the start of the B.C. provincial election — and [Continue]

FORSETH – Political opinions from Nomen Nescio go into junk folder

June 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

TUESDAY MORNING, I received an email from “Nomen Nescio”. Never heard of him? Well neither had I. For those unaware, and according to Wikipedia, Nomen [Continue]

FORSETH – Still talking about governments losing trust of the people

June 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

DECEMBER 2010: George Abbott has said the BC Liberals have lost the trust and confidence of many British Columbians, and that he intends to use this campaign to help see it [Continue]

BESLER/ FORSETH – New slices of the political pie but rest are now smaller

May 17, 2017 // 1 Comment

The following piece was co-written by regular columnist Alan Forseth and Ben Besler. “We were both coming at, thinking about, texting similar thoughts — so it [Continue]