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CHARBONNEAU – When nature gives you tar sands, make carbon fibres

November 23, 2018 // 0 Comments

OIL SANDS crude prices have hit rock bottom. The future could be in the tar -the bitumen. The original name for the deposits, tar sands, should be restored because that’s [Continue]

BEPPLE – Local government reps head to Ottawa for some ‘good politics’

November 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

THESE DAYS, it’s hard not to get cynical about politics. Rather than build us up, again and again there are those in politics who seem determined to tear us apart. There [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – Clerk, Sergeant at Arms placed on administrative leave

November 20, 2018 // 0 Comments

Solicitor General Mike Farnworth in the B.C. Legislature today, Nov. 20,. 2018: Hon. M. Farnworth: By leave, I move: That Mr. Craig James, Clerk of the Legislative [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – Will Kamloops-South Thompson be rural or urban under PR?

November 19, 2018 // 2 Comments

Debate between Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone and Premier John Horgan during Question Period on Monday, Nov. 19, 2018. T. Stone: There remain dozens of details that [Continue]

GINTA – What’s the best way to deal with a lack of empathy?

November 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

EVERY NOW AND THEN certain news makes me go silent. ‘How is that possible?’ is all I can think. Such was the case of the recent break-ins (yes plural, since it happened [Continue]

KNOX – A month after legalization, the feared potocalypse has yet to appear

November 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

THE MORNING AFTER Canada legalized recreational marijuana, I ran into Tommy Chong at the Victoria airport. Knowing the 80-year-old pot icon had flown in the day before for an [Continue]