TRAVIS – A look at numbers shows affordable housing plan falls short
HATE TO BE one of those folk that B.C. Housing minister Rich Coleman believes has nothing better to do than get up and whine every day, but the B.C. government’s [Continue]
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COLLINS – Peeling the onion on indigenous children
I USED TO HAVE difficulty with the term “peeling the onion.” Maybe because my eyes tear up when I think about it. But it’s a very apropos saying when it comes to issues [Continue]
McQUARRIE – High-tech, resource industries, tourism can coexist
I’M A CURIOUS kind of guy and have noticed that whenever we talk about diversifying our local economy, the conversation quickly goes off track as people respond with [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Metric is a failure; let’s go back to the good old Imperial system
An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WE STILL LIVE in two solitudes in this country. I don’t mean the French-English thing. I mean the Imperial-Metric thing. [Continue]
GINTA – Saving bees one ban proposal at a time
DOWN THE STREET from where we live on the way to the trails there is a sign that says ‘Honey for sale’. I like that. We always buy local honey. We use beeswax candles [Continue]
KNOX – The real face of poverty isn’t always the one we imagine
HERE’S WHAT happened during the tent-city saga: The least sympathetic face of poverty became the dominant one. Violence, theft, drug use, squalor — to much of the [Continue]
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