Local Voices

JOHNSON – Would someone tell the B.C. government we don’t live in Vancouver?

February 18, 2025 // 2 Comments

REGARDING THE BC Speculation and Vacancy Tax Declaration we have all have to make before march. This has nothing to do with the details of the appropriateness of said tax, I [Continue]

FORSETH – Interprovincial trade remains tangled in protectionism

February 18, 2025 // 2 Comments

NOTE: The following column by Alan Forseth was first publish on March 4, 2019. He says that “Since then, there’s been little done to ensure that trade [Continue]

FORSETH – Where is all that electric power going to come from?

February 14, 2025 // 14 Comments

ACCORDING TO a Nov. 28, 2024 Global News story, BC Hydro imported one quarter of the province’s power needs in the 12 previous months. The story stated that for the [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – New Age Temperance – Millennials, Gen Z redefine sobriety

February 13, 2025 // 1 Comment

MILLENNIALS AND Generation Z are discovering what many in my boomer generation found out – drinking too much is bad for you. In my forties, I became aware that drinking too [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Speculation Tax Declaration defies the presumption of innocence

February 6, 2025 // 1 Comment

KAMLOOPSIANS ARE RECEIVING the Speculation Tax Declaration form in the mail for the first time. I thought it must be some kind of scam but B.C.’s Finance Minister Brenda [Continue]

JOHNSON – How Trump got played by Canada and Mexico on tariff threat

February 5, 2025 // 2 Comments

SURE, OK. He threw the threat of tariffs at us, announced them, we retaliated … la, la, la. Now he says ‘a deal has been reached’, and we get a 30-day reprieve. How [Continue]