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McQUARRIE – More Father Knows Best – The back door to legislating morality

January 23, 2018 // 1 Comment

LAST WEEK’S column on the perils of pot and how Father Knows Best, drew a number of responses but one in particular caught my eye. In this case, the reader felt City [Continue]

GINTA – Do we need to redefine what teenagers really are?

January 22, 2018 // 0 Comments

WHEN I WAS 12 or so, I became aware that some elderly people around me, relatives or not, had been married or were forced by various life circumstances to become an [Continue]

KNOX – Not many smokers left to complain about ban by B.C. ferries

January 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

AS OF MONDAY, you may not smoke anywhere on a B.C. Ferries vessel or at its terminals. No smoking tobacco, no smoking e-cigarettes, no smoking dope (yes, the ban includes [Continue]

COLLINS – Are all the snow-clearing complaints really justified?

January 20, 2018 // 1 Comment

REASONABLE ARGUMENT and genuine discussion is important to get a complete picture of any controversy. But I am totally disappointed with the tone of the vast number of [Continue]

PETERS – Actually, the snow clearing budget does matter, and here’s why

January 19, 2018 // 1 Comment

WHEN WE PUBLISHED a table this week comparing snow clearing budgets in different B.C. communities, the response was swift. “The budget doesn’t matter,” [Continue]

FORSETH – Their guns are purchased for one reason, and one only – greed

January 19, 2018 // 3 Comments

ON JAN. 15, an innocent young teenager from Coquitlam died after being hit be a stray bullet, shot by a cold-hearted, callous and uncaring thug. This teen was simply headed [Continue]