Opinion

ROTHENBURGER – The next time you worry about immigrants, spit into a tube and send it to the lab

February 18, 2017 // 3 Comments

I SPIT into a plastic tube a few weeks ago and popped it in the mail. This week, I got the results and the verdict is in — I am a classic universal Canadian. DNA testing [Continue]

BATEMAN – BC Hydro hiding behind FOI on deferral-accounts issue

February 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

IN THE DOG DAYS of summer, while the rest of the world was fixated on the excruciating minutiae of Trump vs. Clinton, Bill Bennett and Adrian Dix had their own war of words. [Continue]

FEATURED COMMENT – It’s high time we had a B.C. Highway Patrol

February 17, 2017 // 4 Comments

Re: discussion on Coquihalla snow storm and Daniela Ginta column, “Where to go from here or why changing our ways can spare some of the trouble ahead,” Feb. 13, 2017. [Continue]

FORSETH – Faith discrimination must be dealt with in a fair, equal and democratic way

February 16, 2017 // 9 Comments

TODAY (Thursday, Feb. 16) Members of Parliament will be voting on a Private Members’ Motion from Liberal MP Iqra Khalid (Mississauga-Erin Mills). Motion M-103 seems [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The new aether is sucking the life out of local TV

February 16, 2017 // 2 Comments

MEDIEVAL SCIENTISTS believed that radio waves were carried through a medium they called the aether. Seems sensible. If sound waves require a medium, why not radio waves? It [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – There were so many more Dave and Morley stories to tell; Sundays will be different now

February 16, 2017 // 2 Comments

WE HAVE LOST a great Canadian story teller but we have his stories to keep the memory of him fresh, forever. I’m talking, of course, about Stuart McLean, the man who became [Continue]