Local Voices

CHARBONNEAU – One-time handout to the homeless reduces social costs

October 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT MAY SEEM counterintuitive to give cash to homeless people. Didn’t their poor money skills get them on the street in the first place? The University of British Columbia [Continue]

BEPPLE – Advance, mail-in ballots will play key role in election results

October 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT MAY WELL BE that we will know the outcome of the American election before we know the results of the B.C. provincial election. Over 700,000 mail in ballots were requested [Continue]

GINTA – Let’s all do our part to reduce the risk of pedestrian fatalities

October 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT WAS NOT THE FACT that the car in front of me was driving faster than 30km/h in the school zone on Summit. Drivers can often and inadvertently find themselves going 50 in a [Continue]

McQUARRIE – An act of quiet kindness that would make the most cynical smile

October 18, 2020 // 1 Comment

SOMETIMES WHEN I write these columns, I feel like the Grinch Who Stole Christmas. The stories are often about humans doing the wrong thing for the wrong reason. They are the [Continue]

PETERS – Nathaniel Martin’s Cutober shines a light on domestic violence

October 17, 2020 // 0 Comments

NATHANIEL MARTIN SAYS he’s no anti-masker and he is certainly taking the COVID-19 pandemic very seriously. But he’s also concerned about the residual impacts of the [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – A reliable postal system is an indication of a country’s democracy

October 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

I’VE FOUND THAT YOU CAN determine how well a country functions by how well its postal system works. When I lived in Australia, I could count on letters getting back to [Continue]