Local Voices

KNOX – Climate crisis didn’t end just because we’ve been fixated on plague

May 30, 2021 // 0 Comments

THREE YEARS AGO, a veteran forest campaigner was on the phone, bemoaning how little attention green-minded people were paying to the logging of old-growth on Vancouver [Continue]

PETERS – We call them survivors

May 29, 2021 // 0 Comments

WE CALL THEM SURVIVORS. Indigenous people who attended the schools in Canada’s residential school system are not called ‘former students’ or ‘attendees’ or [Continue]

IN THE HOUSE – Community mourns with survivors of residential schools

May 29, 2021 // 0 Comments

Comments by Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod in Parliament on Friday, May 28, 2021: Madam Speaker, yesterday, Kúkpi7 Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlúps [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Why people knowingly share falsehoods

May 27, 2021 // 2 Comments

IT USED TO BE that liars would be embarrassed when caught in their lies. But in our post-truth era, the truth is secondary to beliefs. Lies no longer result in humiliation. [Continue]

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]