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NEWSTROM – Intuition, luck, or God saved this faller’s life one winter’s day

July 30, 2017 // 3 Comments

THAT DAY, either God or luck saved my life. Yet, it may have been my own intuition. It took me years to understand that but what I knew that day was much, much less. For [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Populism has lost its meaning

July 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

USE OF THE WORD populism has become more popular says Sylvia Stead, public editor of the Globe and Mail: “There has certainly been a surge in references to ‘populist’ [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Is the chamber of commerce still relevant?

July 25, 2017 // 1 Comment

LAST WEEK at City Council, the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce was a topic of conversation and concern. In a letter to the City, the Chamber, on behalf of all their members, [Continue]

COLLINS — ‘Pet’ bears are not cuddly

July 25, 2017 // 1 Comment

IT SEEMS so sweet on the surface that residents of Barnhartvale have their own pet bear. He even has a name. Residents have taken to calling him Harold. It sounds so cute, [Continue]

FORSETH – Conservative merger: focus on the 95 per cent, not the other five

July 24, 2017 // 2 Comments

NEXT DOOR in Alberta over the weekend, members of the Progressive Conservative Party — and the Wildrose Party — both agreed to a merger. And how was that hailed by the [Continue]

VIEWPOINT – Will wildfires make us stronger?

July 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

I DID NOT realize how horrible wildfires are until I lived through this season in B.C. Going through something is totally different than hearing about it, even when we’re [Continue]