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PETERS – In an age when we know all the answers, we still love a mystery

November 17, 2018 // 0 Comments

WITH ALL OF THE world’s knowledge now available on the internet, it can be kind of jarring to come across an answer we don’t immediately know. Harprit Singh sent [Continue]

MILOBAR – Don’t be fooled by PR’s claims about sunshine and roses

November 16, 2018 // 10 Comments

By PETER MILOBAR MLA, Kamloops-North Thompson THE PRO-PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION (PR) campaigners in this province will have you believe that changing B.C.’s electoral [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – StatsCan and the politicization of information gathering

November 15, 2018 // 0 Comments

STATSCAN NEEDS to update its operating system and reboot. They now operate on a paper system in which only 40 per cent of surveys on spending habits are returned. Those that [Continue]

BEPPLE – $10-a-day child care will be John Horgan’s legacy

November 14, 2018 // 1 Comment

DAVE BARRETT hasn’t been the premier of British Columbia for over 40 years. But when he passed away in February of this year, his legacy lived on. In three and a half [Continue]

GINTA – The Remembrance Day files: it feels like family

November 12, 2018 // 1 Comment

‘In Flanders fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns [Continue]

KNOX – Generations hand down tales of war and sacrifice

November 11, 2018 // 0 Comments

SGT. BILL BOLDT’S letter, penned while convalescing in France, began on a reassuring note. “Now Sis, don’t be alarmed,” he wrote, referring to the Red Cross [Continue]