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MacFADYEN – Fool me once … the tough task of parsing truth from fiction

March 27, 2017 // 1 Comment

APRIL FOOL’S Day will soon be upon us. Pranks and tall tales will snare the unsuspecting. And pity anyone waking from a year-long coma, for they’ll have a hard time [Continue]

NEWSTROM – What was Donald Trump thinking when he wouldn’t shake Angela Merkel’s hand?

March 26, 2017 // 3 Comments

I AM REALLY comfortable with my editor, Mel Rothenburger. Mel and I graduated from the same high school in the verdant Okanagan down there in Oliver. Sometimes pronounced [Continue]

KNOX – The value of learning in your mother tongue first

March 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

MOUSTAPHA FALL had an upbringing familiar to a lot of Canadians. He spoke one language to Mom and Dad at home, then studied in another at school. So while he can understand [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Who will be mayor when dust settles on B.C. election?

March 25, 2017 // 2 Comments

The question of whether or not a by-election will be held for mayor remains up in the air until Peter Milobar decides whether he’ll resign or take a leave of absence if [Continue]

LIFESTYLES – Trust yourself to make a leap of (informed) faith

March 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

DECISIONS, DECISIONS. We face them every day. Big ones, small ones and ones we’re all terrified of getting wrong. Can someone just give us the blueprint guiding us to the [Continue]

COLLINS – The media are under attack, and for very good reasons

March 25, 2017 // 2 Comments

A RECENT REPORT from the group Cision suggests the public’s trust in the media is continuing to fall. Their 2017 State of the Media report indicates 91 per cent of [Continue]