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KNOX – Get your pencils ready to begin this week’s current events quiz

October 28, 2018 // 0 Comments

GOOD MORNING class. Time for a current events quiz. Pick up your pencils and begin. 1. In the U.S., they’re up in arms (as it were) over pipe bombs being mailed through the [Continue]

PETERS – Fatal hit-and-run on Seymour Street has a sadly familiar feel

October 27, 2018 // 1 Comment

THE HIT-AND-RUN INCIDENT ON SEYMOUR STREET last Saturday was all too familiar, and it should be disturbing to all of us that no one has come forward to take responsibility [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Using the future of our planet as a political football

October 25, 2018 // 0 Comments

CANADIANS, INCLUDING BUSINESS GROUPS, support Trudeau’s proposed carbon-pricing plan announced Tuesday. So why are some politicians opposed? The short answer is politics, [Continue]

BEPPLE – Should the side with the most marbles always win the game?

October 24, 2018 // 5 Comments

I WENT LOOKING FOR the 2018 Referendum on Electoral Reform voting package in my mail today. I’d seen online that some people in Kamloops had received their packages. [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – A poetic dissertation on what’s wrong with the referendum

October 23, 2018 // 6 Comments

Debate in the Legislature Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018 on the referendum on electoral change, with Opposition members questioning Premier John Horgan on a date for a televised [Continue]

FORSETH – In politics, as in life, no defeat is ever permanent

October 23, 2018 // 3 Comments

SATURDAY BROUGHT interesting results, from all around the province, as polls closed at 8 p.m. on municipal and school board elections. For starters, Saturday’s civic [Continue]