Local Voices

PETERS – Federal government’s VAC spending does little to honour veterans

November 10, 2018 // 0 Comments

IT’S OFTEN SAID that a person’s true priorities only come through when you look at how they spend their money. The same is true of governments. For example, the [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Ten years after the Great Recession, nothing’s changed

November 8, 2018 // 1 Comment

A DECADE LATER, the crisis that threatened to take down the global financial order seems like a bad dream. Now it’s business as usual. In 2008, banking institutions creaked [Continue]

BEPPLE – Throwing more police at a problem isn’t necessarily the answer

November 7, 2018 // 2 Comments

THIS WEEK, the new city council of Surrey announced they were getting rid of the RCMP as their police force, and replacing it with a City policing force. Their citizens are [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – How are we to feel safe with more oil being shipped by rail?

November 6, 2018 // 3 Comments

Debate during Question Period in the B.C. Legislature on Monday, Nov. 5, 2018 between Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone and Environment Minister George Heyman, who took [Continue]

GINTA – Let us always remember all that they did for us

November 5, 2018 // 1 Comment

MY GRANDFATHER was a WWII veteran. He died when I was nine, and so did the stories that he might have been inclined to share. I have old photos of him in uniform, and I know [Continue]

KNOX – Synagogue slaughter proof that hatred is still among us

November 4, 2018 // 2 Comments

SEVEN YEARS AGO, after someone spray-painted ugly black swastikas on five grave markers, I wandered around Victoria’s Jewish cemetery, looking at some of the names. Here [Continue]