FORSETH – News media must remain free from political interference
LAST WEEK I received two emails, and coincidentally they were both on the same topic…. the News Media. The first was from Leah who said to me … PLEASE DO A BLOG ON [Continue]
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KNOX – And the award for the most abused word ever goes to…… awesome!
AWESOME IS AWFUL. “A perfectly good word rendered meaningless by everyone using it all the time when so many other words would be more suitable,” opined Lori Hamilton of [Continue]
IN THE HOUSE – Government’s back-to-work legislation is Draconian
Debate in the House of Commons on Friday, Nov. 23, 2018 between Labour Minister Patty Hajdu, Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod and others on Resumption and [Continue]
PETERS – More than just an irritation, Christmas Creep could be health hazard
CHRISTMAS CREEP shows no signs of abating, does it? Costco, of course, has long been the retail standard-bearer for introducing holiday merchandise well ahead of the holidays [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – When nature gives you tar sands, make carbon fibres
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’
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]
