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FORSETH – Latest poll numbers bad news for Rustad and BC Conservatives

May 9, 2023 // 2 Comments

MAY 9, 2023: Information in a new poll released today from Research Co. shows: Public backing for the governing BC New Democratic Party (NDP) has increased over the past [Continue]

PETERS – B.C. carbon tax revenue should go to preventing disasters

May 6, 2023 // 0 Comments

A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE B.C. INTERIOR get really upset at Justin Trudeau for the carbon tax — even though he had nothing to do with the one we pay. Our carbon tax was first [Continue]

JOHNSON – How PSAC played the inflation card to get what it wanted

May 5, 2023 // 1 Comment

By DAVID JOHNSON Contributor, ArmchairMayor.ca AS OF MAY 4, it appears that the Federal Government and the union bargaining for 150,000 employees have come to two separate [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Homeless cannot set fires for heat, cooking

May 4, 2023 // 0 Comments

WILL BEATTY, Emergency Preparedness Manager for the City of Kamloops, suggests that the homeless could be justified in setting open fires. “We have to understand that [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Twenty years later, where did the Four Pillars go?

April 30, 2023 // 0 Comments

By BOB HUGHES CEO, ASK Wellness Society OUR COMMUNITIES are being ripped apart from the inside out. Across the province, the impacts of the toxic drug supply are demonstrated [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – ‘When will the premier put an end to his soft on crime policies?’

April 29, 2023 // 0 Comments

MLA Todd Stone in Legislature on Monday. (Image: BC Hansard)

Excerpt from debate in the B.C. Legislature on Thursday, April 27, 2023. T. Stone: With all the words, all the rhetoric, all the bluster in the world from the Public Safety [Continue]