Local Voices

KNOX – ‘Secret Coast Expedition’ aims to amplify Spain’s role in B.C.

June 9, 2019 // 1 Comment

HOW DO YOU PLAN for a month in the wilderness? First, get your dental work done. Don’t want to end up with a dethroned crown halfway between the middle of nowhere and the [Continue]

PETERS – Near-miss video reminds us how close we come to disaster daily

June 8, 2019 // 3 Comments

A CLOSE CALL VIDEO posted to YouTube this week has thousands of people appreciating the value of dashcams. The video shows a car turning left from Highway 97 onto Highway 99, [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Unlock the potential of boredom

June 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

BOREDOM DOESN’T have to be a drag. Although everyone experiences boredom from time to time, defining it is hard. To complicate things, there are different kinds says [Continue]

IN THE HOUSE – Closure of Canfor sawmill part of an industry in crisis

June 7, 2019 // 1 Comment

Excerpt from debate during Question Period in the House of Commons on Wednesday, June 5, 2019. Cathy McLeod, Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo, BC (Conservative) Mr. Speaker, the [Continue]

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]