CHARBONNEAU – Seeing red in food dyes
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]
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McQUARRIE – The foolishness of the make-believe ‘revenue-neutral’ carbon tax
IN THIS COLUMN I’ll be talking about British Columbia’s carbon tax. But wait. Don’t click on and close this tab quite yet, as the next 700 or so words won’t [Continue]
FORSETH – How much more then, could we be thankful for?
I WONDER how many reading this, listen to the Vinyl Cafe, with Stuart McLean, Sundays at noon on CBC radio. I love it … and I especially love the stories he tells. I [Continue]
KNOX – Don’t throw beer cans, but go easy with the digital pitchforks
HERE’S WHAT I’m grateful for at Thanksgiving: No one saw me chuck my beer can at that Baltimore Oriole in Toronto. OK. I can joke. I’m not the one who, after [Continue]
GINTA – Why do pit bulls get more public attention than abused children?
SINCE 2011, at least 233 children between the ages of three and 18 have been subjected to sexual abuse while in foster care. That is in British Columbia alone. The majority [Continue]
FORSETH – The strengths and weaknesses of B.C.’s political parties
A COUPLE of days ago a fellow former B.C. Conservative posed a question(s) to me regarding the organizational strengths and weaknesses of each of the four political parties [Continue]
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