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GUEST COLUMN – ‘Cancel Culture’ or, ‘The Season of Sanctimony’

June 22, 2021 // 2 Comments

By PIERCE GRAHAM Guest Columnist AS A REGULAR READER of several newspapers, science-oriented magazines, and professional and letters-based publications, I occasionally think [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]

KNOX – A Father’s Day tale: how Francis Rattenbury’s son overcame family tragedy

June 20, 2021 // 0 Comments

EVEN WITHOUT THE MURDER, it would have been hard to live under the weight of his famous but scandal-tinged father’s name. Yet John Rattenbury, orphaned by homicide and [Continue]

PETERS – Midway through the vaccine rollout, NACI’s curveball was not helpful

June 19, 2021 // 0 Comments

IS ASTRAZENECA REALLY a second-rate vaccine? The latest messaging from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) would certainly have you believe that. For [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – ‘We need to support First Nations who want residential schools removed’

June 18, 2021 // 2 Comments

Excerpt from exchange between Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Peter Milobar and Nathan Cullen, Minister of State for Lands and Natural Resource Operations, in the B.C. [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Green is my favourite colour of hydrogen

June 18, 2021 // 0 Comments

WHEN I FIRST MADE hydrogen as a kid, I wasn’t aware that hydrogen came in different colours. Back then, I simply attached two copper wires to my model train transformer, [Continue]