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Canine cancer patients face death sentence if RIH refusal to provide chemotherapy drugs isn’t reversed

December 5, 2016 // 3 Comments

Canine family members unlucky enough to get cancer will face death sentences unless Interior Health reverses or stalls a decision to stop providing chemotherapy drugs to [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Cutting size of council would save money, talk

December 4, 2016 // 6 Comments

Note: I mentioned in Saturday’s ArmchairMayor column that I had previously raised the idea of reducing the number of Kamloops City councillors from eight to six. [Continue]

KNOX – Rumbles across the border are growing, in more ways than one

December 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

News item: A U.S. navy plan to expand its fleet of EA-18G jets at Whidbey Island could mean Victorians will be hearing more of The Rumbles. THE RUMBLES from the U.S. are [Continue]

COLLINS – People die from drug overdoses as Ottawa sits on its hands

December 1, 2016 // 3 Comments

WELL, MAYBE it’s not quite as bad as that, but it’s pretty close. I cannot believe that we are not moving more quickly in dealing with the incidence of drug overdoses and [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Bad law stifles freedom of the press

November 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

THEY SHOULD have called it the Suppression of Freedom of the Press Act. Instead, the Harper Government called it the Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act. It was [Continue]

IN THE HOUSE – Nothing to be proud of with our record on drug deaths

November 20, 2016 // 3 Comments

A speech in Parliament this week by MP Cathy McLeod in support of Bill C-307, an amendment to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, a Private Member’s bill [Continue]