Local Voices

KNOX – Candidates on the fringe, where voices yearn to be heard

April 30, 2017 // 1 Comment

THE ODDS of Xaanja Ganja Free getting elected in Oak Bay-Gordon Head are slim. Canucks-winning-the-cup slim. Her name, while unique, is not well known. You have food in your [Continue]

PETERS – Electoral reform is what British Columbia needs, but won’t get

April 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

IT’S THE CRUELEST joke on B.C. citizens: the one thing our democracy needs the most to function properly is the one thing it won’t get after this election, and [Continue]

FORSETH – The leaders’ debate: ‘You didn’t do this, you didn’t do that’

April 27, 2017 // 4 Comments

HERE’S MY synopsis of the televised election debate last night (April 26, 2017) between BC Liberal Christy Clark, the Green Party’s Andrew Weaver, and John Horgan [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – It’s too late to decriminalize marijuana

April 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

DECRIMINALIZATION of marijuana should have happened decades ago. Now it would only add to the confusion. Marijuana users are caught in a legal limbo. The government intends [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Why do the BC Liberals have so much support in the Interior?

April 25, 2017 // 1 Comment

Lots of jobs have been created in B.C., but what the premier fails to point out is that most of those jobs were created in the Lower Mainland and Victoria JOBS, JOBS, JOBS. [Continue]

GINTA – Why we need to celebrate each day before and after Earth Day

April 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

THERE IS AN interesting realization that sneaks up on you once you spend enough time in nature to be humbled by it: that you know squat about it, other than the very basics, [Continue]