Local Voices

BEPPLE – Closure of Canfor’s Vavenby sawmill a sign of the times in rural B.C.

June 5, 2019 // 4 Comments

“Rolling down the highway, leavin’ on a bus, Never thought I’d leave this town, but now I’ve had enough. First they closed the sawmill, then they shut the school, [Continue]

FORSETH – Use of term ‘genocide’ detracts from causes of the violence

June 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

CBC NEWS … After more than three years, dozens of community meetings and testimony from well over 2,000 Canadians, the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls [Continue]

IN THE HOUSE – Tina Fontaine case represents what went wrong

June 4, 2019 // 2 Comments

Excerpts from comments by Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod in Parliament on the evening of Monday, June 3, 2019: WHEN WE THINK ABOUT the murdered and missing [Continue]

GINTA – Driving is fun but it comes with responsibilities

June 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

THE DISTANCE BETWEEN MY CAR and the one that swerved out of the lineup of cars waiting at a stop sign became very small, very fast. The driver had likely waited for a while [Continue]

McQUARRIE – New female politicians breaking the business-as-usual mould

June 2, 2019 // 3 Comments

IN RESEARCHING my previous column on abortion http://tinyurl.com/yy77xdmn, I couldn’t help but feel some important pieces to the puzzle were again being ignored. Not the [Continue]

KNOX – To bee or not to bee? It’s a question of survival, including ours

June 2, 2019 // 1 Comment

I MISS THE BIRDS and the bees. Also the caribou, the foxes and even the skunks. Can’t remember the last time anybody moaned about washing a skunk-sprayed dog with tomato [Continue]