CHARBONNEAU – Thank you, Mr. Trump, for promising to kill the TPP
IT’S A RARE THING when the views of president-elect Trump and Canadian activists align as in their opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Trump has vowed to kill [Continue]
Local Voices
McQUARRIE – High-tech, resource industries, tourism can coexist
I’M A CURIOUS kind of guy and have noticed that whenever we talk about diversifying our local economy, the conversation quickly goes off track as people respond with [Continue]
GINTA – Saving bees one ban proposal at a time
DOWN THE STREET from where we live on the way to the trails there is a sign that says ‘Honey for sale’. I like that. We always buy local honey. We use beeswax candles [Continue]
KNOX – The real face of poverty isn’t always the one we imagine
HERE’S WHAT happened during the tent-city saga: The least sympathetic face of poverty became the dominant one. Violence, theft, drug use, squalor — to much of the [Continue]
IN THE HOUSE – Liberals should enforce first nations transparency
A Question Period exchange this week (Nov. 21-25, 2016) involving Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod on financial transparency by first nations. Cathy McLeod [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Bad law stifles freedom of the press
THEY SHOULD have called it the Suppression of Freedom of the Press Act. Instead, the Harper Government called it the Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act. It was [Continue]
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