Local Voices

BEPPLE – Transgender people are an important part of our community

November 18, 2020 // 1 Comment

NOVEMBER 13 to 19 is Transgender Awareness Week, a week that raises visibility of transgender people and issues they face. It is followed by Nov. 20, Transgender Day of [Continue]

GINTA – We must be there for those who cannot afford to say ‘I’m tired’

November 17, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT’S TWO YEARS THIS NOVEMBER since I first met Jessie Simpson. I remember entering his room at the long-term care facility, wondering how it would go. Well, it was smiles [Continue]

KNOX – Storm’s a comin’ – what’s in your emergency kit?

November 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT WAS WINDY Friday. I couldn’t do a thing with my hair. Either of them. How windy? Your garbage can lid went on an unscheduled vacation, which, during this ¬pandemic, [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Those inhabitants of the Deep State are getting it all wrong

November 15, 2020 // 1 Comment

PORTRAYED AS A SECRETIVE and malevolent organization, the so-called Deep State is, in truth, nothing more than a drama queen’s heaven; a digital nirvana where the art of [Continue]

PETERS – Picture painted of Patient Care Tower outbreak is far from complete

November 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

SOMETHING STINKS to high heaven about the information coming out — and not coming out — concerning the COVID-19 outbreak at the Royal Inland Hospital Patient Care Tower. [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Our PM has more power than a rational U.S. president

November 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

LET’S COMPARE THE POWERS of our prime minister and the U.S. president under the assumption that rational persons occupy the positions. Our P.M. has more powers than the [Continue]