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BEPPLE – A few questions about B.C.’s new Snakes and Ladders COVID plan

May 26, 2021 // 0 Comments

YESTERDAY, THE B.C. GOVERNMENT released its four-step plan for getting back to normal. A grid of 24 blue and yellow squares outlining the steps we need to go through on our [Continue]

GINTA – When hope, help and gratefulness count as stepping stones

May 26, 2021 // 2 Comments

ON July 26, JESSIE SIMPSON will turn 24. That’s also the day when his mom hopes to have him at home for a few days, so he can enjoy the place he has not been able to see [Continue]

KNOX – Some questions they should have asked on the census

May 23, 2021 // 0 Comments

I FILLED OUT MY CENSUS questionnaire last week. So did you, probably. Some households got the long form, but mine got the short one, which was a bit like opening War and [Continue]

PETERS – Park debate shows elections better than one-off consultations

May 22, 2021 // 0 Comments

YOU KNOW HOW EVERY TIME AN ELECTION APPROACHES, there are impassioned pleas for people to get out and vote? It’s often a case of too little, too late. Unless a potential [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE: Is help on the way for the North Thompson Fall Fair, or not?

May 20, 2021 // 0 Comments

Debate in the B.C. Legislature today (May 20, 2021) between Greg Kyllo, Karin Kirkpatrick and Peter Milobar of the BC Liberals, and Melanie Mark, Minister of Education, [Continue]

FORSETH – Age and income are not ‘barriers’ to getting vaccinated

May 20, 2021 // 2 Comments

THE HEADLINE of a news story in the Vancouver Sun on Tuesday (May 18), stated: “Vaccine information not reaching young adults in B.C., poll shows.” Leading off the [Continue]