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CHARBONNEAU – Good memorials, bad memorials of residential schools

September 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

FIRST NATIONS SHOW THE WAY to reconciliation. Protestors with other agendas should pay heed. In a transformative move, Indigenous Canadians have designated the residential [Continue]

BEPPLE – Our kids will be in good hands as they return to school during COVID

September 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

I REMEMBER one of my very first days of kindergarten as if it were yesterday. There I was, a tiny five-year-old, walking up the steps of the school. But before I could [Continue]

McQUARRIE – We’ll need more pizzerias if we get serious about conspiracies

September 6, 2020 // 1 Comment

IT STARTED WITH what until recently was a fringe group; a group that inhabited that questionable and murky online world that often seems unable to distinguish reality from [Continue]

KNOX – Are the wheels falling off the work-from-home bus?

September 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT’S THE LABOUR DAY WEEKEND. Labour as in time to go back to work — which, for many people these days means popping open a laptop on the kitchen counter. If there has [Continue]

PETERS – Better spacing needed as school restarts next week

September 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

PREPARE FOR BIGGER BUBBLES.That is essentially beginning next week as thousands of Kamloops students return to schools, representing an exponential increase in pandemic [Continue]

FORSETH – Some alarming trends are developing in B.C.’s COVID-19 stats

September 4, 2020 // 3 Comments

BACK TO SCHOOL starts in a matter of days, and a trend is appearing in the COVID-19 situation that, to me at least, should be a matter of concern. Where we had previously [Continue]