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IN THE HOUSE – Amendments to Human Rights Act send positive message to LGBTQ community

October 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

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

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]

McQUARRIE – The foolishness of the make-believe ‘revenue-neutral’ carbon tax

October 12, 2016 // 3 Comments

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?

October 11, 2016 // 1 Comment

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

October 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

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?

October 7, 2016 // 1 Comment

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

October 6, 2016 // 3 Comments

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]

McLEOD – Will First Nations have a veto over job-creating projects?

October 6, 2016 // 1 Comment

Excerpt from comments by Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod in Parliament on Wednesday (Oct. 5, 2016) evening at 7:25 p.m. Mr. Speaker, as I follow up on a question I [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The ruin of BC Hydro by the Campbell Liberals

October 6, 2016 // 3 Comments

IT WASN’T an easy birth. The private companies opposed it. It took the vision of one man to bring BC Hydro into existence in1961. Before that, a patchwork of power [Continue]