Local Voices

CHARBONNEAU – Please stop treating B.C.’s Interior like it’s a colony

April 20, 2017 // 1 Comment

PREMIER CLARK’s plan for job growth in B.C.’s interior is a failure. Her plan to extract Liquefied Natural Gas from the interior evaporated. She is sending more raw [Continue]

WALSH – Bigger venue needed for consultant’s report on Ajax proposal

April 19, 2017 // 3 Comments

WE NEED to prepare for citizen involvement in the final report by SLR Consulting. There was a huge interest and public turnout just over a year ago when SLR went public with [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Suppose we hired 200 doctors and paid students’ tuition?

April 18, 2017 // 2 Comments

SUPPOSE, just for a moment, that B.C. decided to hire and pay a salary to doctors willing to locate to communities outside of the Lower Mainland. For sake of argument, [Continue]

COLLINS – The elephant in the room

April 18, 2017 // 1 Comment

WORLD TENSIONS probably haven’t been this great in a while. While North Korea is sending out coded transmission signals to their troops, and trying hard to show us they [Continue]

COLLINS – One of the good guys

April 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

HE WAS ONE of the good guys. John Dormer passed away this weekend at the age of 72. My association with John started when he was a representative for the then- B.C. Tel. He [Continue]

GINTA – A basketful of Easter memories

April 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

To this day, I manage to get a raised eyebrow or two when I step into a grocery store and ask for onion peels prior to Easter weekend I MUST’VE BEEN 10 or so when I got [Continue]