Guest Column

GUEST COLUMN – A once-pleasant neighbourhood is now under siege

November 19, 2023 // 8 Comments

By LYNNE STONIER-NEWMAN Guest Columnist SIRENS BLARING, three fire engines, two ambulances and two police cars arrived shortly after 11 p.m. last Sunday night. Lynne [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – City councillors are at it again with their latest media release

November 10, 2023 // 4 Comments

By BRONWEN SCOTT Guest Columnist OUR CITY COUNCILLORS seem to be at it again. The councillors announced in a media release Nov. 9 that they will hold a future closed meeting [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Why Judge Begbie sentenced six fugitive chiefs to hang

October 1, 2023 // 1 Comment

By LYNNE STONIER-NEWMAN Guest Columnist LYNNE STONIER-NEWMAN here, author of the early B.C. history nonfiction book: PETER O’REILLY: The colonials who decreed and [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – There’s little chance of finding common ground on SOGI

September 27, 2023 // 4 Comments

By JOSEPH JACK Guest Columnist A RESPONSE to Armchair Mayor Mel Rothenburger, regarding “finding common ground” with anti SOGI protesters. As someone who attended both [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – It’s time we created a National Wildfire Fighting Air Force

August 21, 2023 // 7 Comments

By TONY KLANCAR Guest Columnist WHERE WAS THE HELP? Where were the water bombers? With those words the reporter walked through the devastation of the former town of [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – We can make a difference by helping in small ways

July 11, 2023 // 8 Comments

By TRUDY MONTGOMERY Guest Columnist NO SINGLE SOLUTION can end homelessness. Simple kindness and compassion will help. Having no home leads people to yearn for a door to [Continue]