Local Voices

GINTA – Let’s include financial literacy in our children’s education

January 28, 2019 // 1 Comment

HERE’S SOME SOBERING NEWS from a recent article inThe Globe and Mail: 46 percent of Canadians are within $200 from financial insolvency at each month-end. Blame it on [Continue]

KNOX – In the hinterland, legislature fuss feeds disconnect with capital

January 27, 2019 // 1 Comment

CHERYL-ANN ABERNATHY doesn’t know much about the allegations of improper spending at the legislature but they don’t surprise her. Lots of things go on in Victoria’s [Continue]

PETERS – Can’t we have a nice, peaceful drug trade?

January 26, 2019 // 1 Comment

CAN’T WE HAVE A NICE, PEACEFUL DRUG TRADE? I guess not. When you have an economic sector that’s completely unregulated, the business owners will regulate it [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Former Kamloopsian adjusts to retirement in a small town

January 25, 2019 // 3 Comments

By BILL McQUARRIE Notes from the Rainforest PORT McNEILL – It’s been awhile since we last chatted. Something like four months since I dashed out of town on what [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – China ‘understands’ the developing world

January 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

CHINA IS TAKING A PAGE out of the American playbook in its massive global investment called the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). “Belt,” is short for the Silk Road [Continue]

GINTA – Food was never meant to be this challenging to deal with

January 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

THERE’S BARELY A WEEK going by without another set of recommendations on the best foods to eat, best diets to lose weight, best way to exercise, and best ways to live [Continue]