Local Voices

PETERS – Prospect of change to doctors’ pay more promising than funding

August 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

THE PROVINCIAL FUNDING FOR FAMILY PHYSICIANS announced this week is a good sign — but not even the best piece of news coming out of that announcement. The funding itself is [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Is it time to ask for Canadian Forces medics?

August 27, 2022 // 4 Comments

By LYNNE STONIER-NEWMAN Guest Columnist OUR RURAL COMMUNITIES’ established medical services are collapsing. Emergency wards in their hospitals are repeatedly being [Continue]

COLLINS – Increased use of social media a big change in election campaigns

August 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

AS TECHNOLOGY HAS GROWN, candidates for election have more and more tools to add to their arsenal in reaching out to potential supporters. With only two weeks left to [Continue]

FORSETH – Beating the drum of crazed conspiracy theories won’t win

August 26, 2022 // 1 Comment

THIS MORNING in my political email Inbox, came another in what has been hundreds of emails from all of the candidates seeking to become the next leader of the Conservative [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Export of hydrogen to Germany by 2025 is a pipedream

August 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

I ADMIRE GERMANY for doing so much to reduce greenhouse gases. Too bad that the initiative has left them dependent on the import of natural gas — half of it from Russia. [Continue]

PETERS – Nostalgia is powerful but is it enough to sustain a Zellers revival?

August 20, 2022 // 1 Comment

THE NEWS OF THE ZELLERS REVIVAL engendered such an excited response this week, you would think this place was retail utopia. Unique products at rock-bottom prices in a [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – New Russian movie villains won’t look like the old ones

August 18, 2022 // 0 Comments

THE NEW RUSSIAN VILLAINS probably won’t be like the old ones in movies. In the 1950s, Russian villains were seen as alien invaders with superior weapons and mind control in [Continue]

JOHNSON – A story about how I quit smoking after almost 40 years

August 15, 2022 // 2 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON ArmchairMayor.ca Contributor THIS IS A STORY of how I stopped smoking cigarettes. First the disclaimer. I used vaping products. I do not in any way endorse [Continue]

KNOX – We live longer if we read, study says, but does quality matter?

August 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

News item: People who read more than 3½ hours a week lived 23 months longer than those who didn’t read at all, according to a study published in the journal Social Science [Continue]

PETERS – More than a passing fad, move to active transportation is exploding

August 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

AFTER SPENDING THE PAST FEW WEEKS travelling on Vancouver Island, the prevalence of so-called alternative modes of transportation really stood out to me. One of the most [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – BC Housing reboot: there’s a lot of catching up to do

August 11, 2022 // 1 Comment

BC HOUSING CORPORATION is suffering growing pains and no wonder. After years of neglect in building affordable housing, there ís a lot of catching up to do. The provincial [Continue]

MILOBAR – NDP just not taking crime issue as seriously as the rest of us

August 5, 2022 // 3 Comments

By PETER MILOBAR MLA, Kamloops-North Thompson WHEN DAVID EBY decided to run for premier, his colleague Murray Rankin was installed as Acting Attorney General. If you thought [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The green-washing of B.C.’s wood pellet industry

August 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

OUR WOOD PELLET industry is clear cutting the province under the pretense that pellets are a green source of fuel. Much of the industry is in B.C.’s inland rainforests and [Continue]

KNOX – Test your knowledge with this B.C. Day quiz

July 31, 2022 // 0 Comments

RIGHT, THE B.C. DAY long weekend, a time when the people of this province traditionally celebrate who they are by racing to the outlet stores at Bellingham. How well do you [Continue]