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POLITICS – Former Speaker Darryl Plecas lands on 2021 Nice List

January 1, 2022 // 3 Comments

By KRIS SIMS B.C. Director, Canadian Taxpayers Federation DARRYL PLECAS has given British Columbians a gift that keeps giving all year long: government transparency. Before [Continue]

CHRISTMAS – Five things to know about Mary, the mother of Jesus

December 25, 2021 // 0 Comments

Jan van Eyck, The Ghent Altarpiece, 1432. Virgin Mary detail. (Wikimedia Commons) By PHILIP C. ALMOND The University of Queensland MARY, THE MOTHER OF JESUS, is [Continue]

MORGAN – Vaccine passports are not only unreliable, they’re dangerous

December 20, 2021 // 3 Comments

Evidence that vaccinated people can and do contract and spread the virus undermines the rationale of vaccine passports THE CREATION of multiple COVID-19 vaccines in an [Continue]

SUZUKI – If our stories set us apart, we need to create new ones

December 15, 2021 // 2 Comments

ACCORDING TO philosopher-historian Yuval Noah Harari, “Homo sapiens conquered this planet thanks above all to the unique human ability to create and spread fictions. [Continue]

MENZIES – It’s time to escape from our COVID-induced prison

December 2, 2021 // 3 Comments

Fear of dying has stripped us of the courage to live By PETER MENZIES Contributor, Troy Media IT’S BEEN ALMOST TWO YEARS now since I had a social life of any kind. You [Continue]

CLIMATE – How an ‘atmospheric river’ led to floods and mudslides in B.C.

November 19, 2021 // 1 Comment

By JOHN J. CLAGUE Simon Fraser University THE WEST COAST of Canada is known for its wet autumn weather, but the storm that British Columbia’s Fraser Valley experienced over [Continue]

RECONCILIATION – Canada is not a half-mast nation

November 18, 2021 // 2 Comments

The price of Trudeau’s empty gesture was nothing less than a cheapening of the Canadian idea By PATRICE DUTIL Senior fellow Macdonald-Laurier Institute THE TRUDEAU [Continue]

SUZUKI – It will take more than electric cars to drive down emissions

November 17, 2021 // 1 Comment

RESOLVING THE CLIMATE CRISIS isn’t just about shifting from one technology to another; it’s about shifting our ways of thinking and being. It’s a point that often gets [Continue]

SUZUKI – Enough ‘blah, blah, blah’ – it’s time for real change on climate issue

November 3, 2021 // 1 Comment

WHAT’S THE BEST WAY to respond to a “code red”? Recent research is testing us on that. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s “Climate Change 2021: The [Continue]

SUZUKI – CBD gummy scam illustrates the need for media literacy

October 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

WOULD YOU BUY cannabis gummies from me? Apparently, hundreds of people would. Only trouble is, I don’t sell them, and I’m not looking for business opportunities. [Continue]

COVID – Canada’s crippled tourism industry must be revived

September 29, 2021 // 0 Comments

The impact of COVID on tourism is more significant than that of 9/11, SARS and the 2008 economic crisis combined By ALEXANDRE MASSAUX Research associate Frontier Centre for [Continue]

POLITICS – Why minority governments have been good, and sometimes bad

September 21, 2021 // 2 Comments

By ALEX MARLAND Memorial University of Newfoundland CANADA HAS ANOTHER MINORITY government. Is this good or bad for Canadian democracy? Mostly good — for now. There’s a [Continue]

STOCKLAND – COVID-19 and the rise of the golden age of stupidity

September 19, 2021 // 2 Comments

The pandemic is making scapegoats of those that only yesterday we called fellow citizens and neighbours AMERICAN WRITER Lance Morrow recently identified our current moment as [Continue]

DIX – Vaccine card gets us one step closer to getting rid of the pandemic

September 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

By ADRIAN DIX Minister of Health, B.C. OVER THE LAST year and a half of the global pandemic, one thing has become abundantly clear – the COVID-19 virus lives to spread and [Continue]