BEPPLE – Thanks to Kamloops This Week for telling our stories
SOMEWHERE IN MY KEEPSAKES, I still have the newspaper clipping of my birth announcement my mother kept. I have the newspaper obituaries of loved ones tacked to my bulletin [Continue]
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CHARBONNEAU – Palestine vs. Israel: Brothers are the worst enemies
THROUGHOUT HISTORY, sibling rivalry and family feuds have resulted in epic struggles for power, land and resources. The first murder recorded in the Bible was committed by a [Continue]
PETERS – No end in sight to the horrific cycle of killing in the Middle East
BACK IN MY UNIVERSITY YEARS, I had a professor who had returned to teach in Canada after spending years in Israel and the West Bank, working for a relief organization. I [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Damage caused by criminalization will take years to repair
THE DAMAGE DONE by a century of criminalization cannot be undone quickly but B.C. has taken the right approach in decriminalizing small amounts of cocaine, methamphetamine, [Continue]
PETERS – Rise of B.C. Conservatives leaves B.C. United caught in the middle
A LEGER POLL released this week will no doubt have shaken the B.C. United foundations. The poll of 1,001 B.C. residents showed 42 per cent support for the governing NDP. [Continue]
FORSETH – I said to the Narwhal: ‘This isn’t so-called Canada – it IS Canada’
A SEPTEMBER 30 NEWSLETTER in The Narwhal had a piece, from Karin Saxena, entitled “Holding space for both grief and resilience“. The piece began with the [Continue]
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