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CHARBONNEAU – Teaching coding in schools is just rhetoric without a plan

October 20, 2016 // 3 Comments

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

October 19, 2016 // 2 Comments

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

October 18, 2016 // 2 Comments

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]

KNOX – In the light of good people, some relief from the dark

October 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

THE DUTCH government just honoured Rudi Hoenson and the timing — Thanksgiving — couldn’t be better. You might never meet someone with so much cause to be bitter, but so [Continue]

GINTA – Rethinking our eating habits can’t happen soon enough

October 14, 2016 // 3 Comments

WHENEVER we happen to have a meal out, we opt for water instead of any sweetened beverages. Often enough we get an extra question regarding the boys. ‘Them too, water?’ [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Seeing red in food dyes

October 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

THEY HAVE no nutritional value; they are completely unnecessary; and they are harmful to health. Yet food dyes are added in growing amounts. If you read food labels, as I do, [Continue]