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PETERS – With the bottle cap challenge, at least no one ate laundry detergent

July 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

KEEPING UP WITH VIRAL PHENOMENA is not exactly my strength, but it was impossible this week to escape videos of the bottle cap challenge. In these videos, celebrities set a [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – As Canada goes nuclear, we’d rather not think about it

July 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

CANADA IS THIRD IN THE WORLD in replacing fossil fuels with nuclear. France and Sweden have replaced almost all of their fossil-fuelled generated electricity with nuclear [Continue]

MILOBAR – ‘Top-up’ of electric vehicle rebate program is actually a reduction

July 4, 2019 // 4 Comments

By PETER MILOBAR MLA, Kamloops-North Thompson WE RECENTLY SAW ANOTHER pathetic attempt by John Horgan and the NDP to fool British Columbians — this time, with regards to [Continue]

BEPPLE – Political will can take us from gas guzzlers to electric vehicles

July 3, 2019 // 3 Comments

I GREW UP WHEN KIDS bounced around in the back seats of cars because there were no seatbelts, let alone child car seats. Except for one time when the family car went flying [Continue]

GINTA – If we mean all that we say today….

July 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

THE AIR SMELLS SWEET and sticky; it smells of soapberries, though they are mere green blobs right now, so all I smell is a promise; I like it, it has a tinge of humbleness to [Continue]

KNOX – Beyond politics, the grim reality of police cuts

June 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

IT WOULD BE TEMPTING to dismiss the latest glumness out of the Victoria Police Department as political posturing. Tempting, but incorrect. Don’t get me wrong. VicPD [Continue]