BEPPLE – $10-a-day child care will be John Horgan’s legacy
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]
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GINTA – The Remembrance Day files: it feels like family
‘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
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]
PETERS – Federal government’s VAC spending does little to honour veterans
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
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
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]
