Local Voices

BEPPLE – Deck chairs are likely to shuffle in City council election

September 5, 2018 // 2 Comments

WELL THE RACE IS ON for the Oct. 20 civic elections across B.C. Tuesday was the first day those wanting to run could file their papers. Locally, from Sept. 4 until Sept. [Continue]

McQUARRIE – More discussion about City Hall and the performing arts centre

September 4, 2018 // 0 Comments

A FEW WEEKS AG0, I asked readers to let me know what was on their minds regarding the upcoming City Election. What were the questions needing answers? We know from past [Continue]

GINTA – Back to school should not mean a mountain of new debt

September 4, 2018 // 0 Comments

THERE WAS A TIME when back to school shopping meant purchasing a fair number of notebooks – one for each subject ideally, pencils, pens (a fountain pen too, but that was [Continue]

KNOX – Politicians ignored views of West Coast on Trans Mountain

September 2, 2018 // 7 Comments

THE TRANS MOUNTAIN pipeline project wasn’t halted because it’s a bad idea. It got derailed because its approval was a railroad job, with we on the West Coast the damsel [Continue]

PETERS – Proper consultation with indigenous communities the right thing

September 1, 2018 // 2 Comments

THE PAST SIX YEARS have brought quite a roller coaster ride for the Trans Mountain pipeline. The original pipe was completed in 1953, but it was only 2012 when Kinder Morgan [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Normalizing the voices in our heads

August 30, 2018 // 0 Comments

HEARING VOICES is often regarded as a sign of mental illness. But maybe voices are just part of a spectrum. Professor T. M. Luhrmann says the idea of a continuum of voices is [Continue]