CHARBONNEAU – Closure of the Vavenby mill was so predictable
WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED the collapse of the B.C. forestry industry 15 years ago? Bob Simpson, that’s who. Back then the NDP MLA for Cariboo North was derided by the BC [Continue]
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McQUARRIE – Being ‘busy’ is not a badge of honour or proof of importance
HOW OFTEN HAVE YOU HEARD or maybe even used the excuse that begins with, “Sorry I’m late but I’ve just been so busy”? It is today’s most overused excuse [Continue]
JOHNSON – Railcars are rolling, the pipeline build has already begun
By DAVID JOHNSON TODAY I WATCHED as trucks stacked with the actual pipe, leave the storage yard on Mission Flats road in Kamloops, and head out towards the next construction [Continue]
PETERS – Safe return home of missing man gives us reason to keep hoping
IF NEWS IS SUPPOSED TO BE stories that are unexpected or out of the ordinary, then the biggest news story of the week wasn’t the approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline [Continue]
HEIGHTON – Plastic ban will affect businesses but change is needed
By JEREMY HEIGHTON Executive Director, NSBIA I REMEMBER GOING grocery shopping with my mom, getting the big paper bags from Safeway or Woodward’s that always seemed to [Continue]
GINTA – The do and don’t lists of Summer
A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO the Kamloops skies were smoky from the wildfires in Alberta and everyone was thinking the same: it’s too soon. Aside from a few small fires around [Continue]
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