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KNOX – Sometimes it takes a trip away to make us appreciate home

November 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

A MAN WAS SHOT on the Las Vegas strip recently, right in front of the Monte Carlo hotel. I know this because a beefy, blazered hotel security guy was blocking the sidewalk. [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – NDP govt stacking the deck against First Past the Post

November 25, 2017 // 7 Comments

Doug Clovechok, Liberal MLA for Columbia River-Revelstoke, during debate on second reading of Bill 6, Electoral Reform Referendum 2018 Act, Nov. 23, 2017. D. Clovechok: [Continue]

PETERS – Santa Claus parade a chance to say thanks to wildfire volunteers

November 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Parade isn’t a $100,000 monument but those who fought wildfires may appreciate it even more LET’S BE HONEST it’s been a horrible year. Between the [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Comedy of errors surrounds parking at Royal Inland

November 21, 2017 // 1 Comment

I NEVER THOUGHT I’d be writing about this again. The entire situation has been a comedy of errors. Yet once again, here I am talking about the ongoing saga of parking [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – Other than partisan malice, why would govt cancel Site C?

November 20, 2017 // 1 Comment

Debate during Question Period in the B.C. Legislature on Monday, Nov. 20, 2017, between MLA Tracy Redies (BC Liberal) and Energy Minister Michelle Mungall. T. Redies: Today, [Continue]

GINTA – The magic you see when you close your eyes

November 20, 2017 // 2 Comments

LATE AFTERNOON Saturday found us at our neighbours’. My husband was to lend a helping hand lifting a potato and onion box our neighbour built for his wife. There was no [Continue]