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October 28, 2020 in Editorials // EDITORIAL – Now is the time for regulation, not expectation on masks
October 28, 2020 in Bepple // BEPPLE – Stone and Milobar must hold NDP’s feet to the fire on promises
October 27, 2020 in Ginta // GINTA – Doing the right thing for the community counts more than ever
October 27, 2020 in Editorials // EDITORIAL – Columbia Street West is not the place to put social housing
October 26, 2020 in Feedback // NATIONAL PULSE – Defend or defund? One in four say cut police budgets

McQuarrie

McQUARRIE – An act of quiet kindness that would make the most cynical smile

October 18, 2020 // 1 Comment

SOMETIMES WHEN I write these columns, I feel like the Grinch Who Stole Christmas. The stories are often about humans doing the wrong thing for the wrong reason. They are the [Continue]

McQUARRIE – The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse

September 27, 2020 // 4 Comments

GIVEN HOW WELL 2020 has gone this year, I thought it might be a good time to again ask: Who were those Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? I’m also wondering if maybe, just [Continue]

McQUARRIE – We’ll need more pizzerias if we get serious about conspiracies

September 6, 2020 // 1 Comment

IT STARTED WITH what until recently was a fringe group; a group that inhabited that questionable and murky online world that often seems unable to distinguish reality from [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Hide your bathroom scale and watch weight problems disappear

August 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

I HAVE A FEELING that the number of bathroom scales along with their daily use in Canada is the primary reason why so many of us are overweight. We have too many bathroom [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Come on in to the Covid Cafe and check out today’s special

August 9, 2020 // 2 Comments

THANK YOU FOR STOPPING BY the Covid Cafe, where your rights to personal choice extend well beyond our well thought out and delicious menu. As I take you to your table, [Continue]

McQUARRIE – ‘I’m not a racist but’ is an all-too familiar phrase

June 28, 2020 // 2 Comments

JUST WHEN YOU THINK things might be getting better, a post like this is shared on local social media saying: “Got a speeding ticket near a Dennys. Do I burn down the [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Boomers – we didn’t defeat the man, we became the man

June 14, 2020 // 3 Comments

I AM OLD ENOUGH to have watched and been inspired by President Kennedy as he explained in a 1963 speech why desegregation of schools and universities in Alabama was [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Mass murder in the name of personal freedom

May 31, 2020 // 3 Comments

IS ONE’S SELF-IMAGE, at least for some, so fragile these days that even a simple act of kindness and concern towards someone other than themselves is now seen as an [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Better than nothing – the Canadian motto for seniors’ care

May 17, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT SEEMS WE WHO HAVE worked long enough to qualify for Old Age Security (OAS) and the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) are going to get a one-time COVID-19 payment. It will come [Continue]

McQUARRIE – I have seen the future, and it is not Sunshine and Lollipops

February 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

LATELY I’ VE HAD the unfortunate experience of being given a glimpse into the future and I have to say it wasn’t — as that old song goes — all Sunshine and [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Answer to the crisis in small-town B.C. – another report

February 9, 2020 // 2 Comments

THERE IS A CRISIS in small town B.C. and while not unexpected in rural communities built and sustained solely by the resource sector it isn’t any less painful or real for [Continue]

McQUARRIE – A lot of ‘breaking news’ stories sound all too familiar

January 26, 2020 // 2 Comments

WATCHING FROM THE DISTANT and rainy shores of Vancouver Island, I sometimes find myself amused – in a head-scratching kind of way – by breaking news stories in [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Golden goose of rural B.C. has been plundered too many times

January 12, 2020 // 5 Comments

SMALL TOWN B.C. is in serious trouble and government neglect in the years preceding today’s forestry sector implosion has only served to make this meltdown worse and [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Enjoy your New Year’s resolutions while they last

December 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

I’M NOT GOING TO ROB a bank this year. I’ve also resolved to not free climb Yosemite’s El Capitan. And in 2020, I am going to the gym three times a week and not [Continue]