KNOX – Re-thinking the role of our RCMP auxiliaries
IT ALWAYS looked like a bureaucratic overreaction, a solution in search of a problem. When the RCMP yanked its auxiliary officers away from the sharp end of policing this [Continue]
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GINTA – Our children deserve better
IT’S BEEN quite a turmoiled last few days. I will leave the U.S. election circus to the side for now because it’s way too crazy to get close to it and truth is, there [Continue]
IN THE HOUSE – Amendments to Human Rights Act send positive message to LGBTQ community
Excerpts from what Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod had to say in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016 during debate on amendments to the Canadian Human [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Teaching coding in schools is just rhetoric without a plan
B.C. PREMIER Clark’s plan to introduce computer coding in schools is full of difficulties. Teachers aren’t trained in coding. Even if teachers were taught the basics of [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Lefty-righty labels don’t apply to free enterprise any more
I’M SOMETIMES asked, as I was last week, about my bias to the left of the political spectrum. Some may even be a bit confused, wondering how I can possibly write opinion [Continue]
IN THE HOUSE – Rural communities will be badly hurt if softwood lumber issue with U.S. isn’t resolved
Excerpts from a speech by Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod during debate in the House of Commons Oct. 17, 2016 on an Opposition motion on the Softwood Lumber [Continue]
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