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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]

COLLINS – The Merry-Go-Round of life is spinning rapidly

April 29, 2023 // 0 Comments

I THINK IF WE TOOK all the hot air being generated by people discussing solutions to our problems, we would be able to provide heat for the world without having to extract [Continue]