KNOX – There’s not enough listening in this age of instant outrage
IT’S ONE OF those issues that Justin Trudeau just can’t scrape off his shoe. Faith groups are up in arms. An Ontario Catholic diocese says it won’t be “bullied” [Continue]
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PETERS – The Phoenix pay system is screwing us all
IT’S NOT as interesting maybe as fanciful flights to private islands or payouts to child soldiers, but the federal government has a much more costly and embarrassing [Continue]
IN THE LEDGE – A lot of words but not much content in Throne Speech
Excerpt from a speech by Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Peter Milobar during the Throne Speech debate, in response to Leonard Krog, the NDP MLA for Nanaimo, in the Legislature [Continue]
IN THE LEDGE – ‘When will he stop this damaging trade war with Alberta?’
Debate during Question Period on the dispute between B.C. and Alberta in the Legislature on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018. Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson and Premier John Horgan [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – The rise and fall of globalization
AS THE SUN sets on globalization, what will a new day bring? The new era will face challenges of rampant parochialism, environmental destruction, inequality and greed. The [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Bemused and befuddled in the Twilight Zone of local politics
POLITICIANS! There are weeks when the only thing you can do is give your head a shake and wonder in bemused befuddlement, if we have indeed entered the Twilight Zone of [Continue]
