Local Voices

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]

CHARBONNEAU – ‘Supply chain’ should be a contender for phrase of the year

December 30, 2021 // 0 Comments

I’M PICKING ‘SUPPLY CHAIN’ as phrase of the year. While there were other strong candidates, the stark frailty of supply chains and its psychological backlash [Continue]

GINTA – Eleven lessons from the year that’s just ending

December 29, 2021 // 2 Comments

I SAW THIS CARTOON the other day. A group of people were cautiously opening a door by pushing it with a long-handle broom. The door had 2022 written on it and the caption [Continue]

BEPPLE – Here’s to those who got us through 2021, and will again in 2022

December 29, 2021 // 0 Comments

JANUARY IS NAMED after the Roman God Janus, who had two faces. One looked ahead, the other behind. So Jan. 1, which most of the of the world celebrates as New Year’s Day, [Continue]

KNOX – A century ago, a secret potlatch continued an indigenous tradition

December 28, 2021 // 0 Comments

BILL CRANMER FIGURES his dad held his potlatch at this time of year to show that the ceremony, with its spiritual significance, gift-giving and feasting, was similar to the [Continue]