Local Voices

FORSETH – Community gaming grants are fluctuating in the wrong direction

December 28, 2016 // 2 Comments

ON WEDNESDAY, Dec. 7, Peter Fassbender (Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development) released information about ongoing, and upcoming, changes it was making [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Fearless political predictions for 2017 and beyond

December 27, 2016 // 1 Comment

LIKE THE GREAT Carnac of Johnny Carson’s era, it’s that time of year again. Time to pull out the crystal ball, the Ouija board, some old tealeaves, a copy of the National [Continue]

FORSETH – BC Liberals’ homebuyer plan nothing more than crass politics

December 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

BILL TIELEMAN and the Tyee, and Ezra Levant’s The Rebel, are singing off the same song sheet?? Say it ain’t so! But it is so, and I was as shocked, as you likely [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Privacy rights and the death of history on the internet

December 22, 2016 // 1 Comment

CONVICTED KILLER Clifford Olson would probably have preferred that any account of his murder of eleven children and young people in the 1980s removed from the internet. Links [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Bringing home the ‘National Interest’ of pipelines

December 20, 2016 // 2 Comments

LIKE YOU, I’ve heard most of the Trans Mountain Pipeline arguments from both sides. I’ve watched and listen to the pre-sanitized sound bites from the politicians as [Continue]

GINTA – Keeping the season unconditionally merry

December 19, 2016 // 2 Comments

I SPENT almost 10 minutes learning what hatchimals are. Not having cable television keeps us out of the loop, but we like it that way. It was strangely unsettling to learn [Continue]