Other Voices

CIVIC ELECTION – Elect candidates who will cut red tape for builders

September 13, 2022 // 3 Comments

By CHRIS GARDNER President, Independent Contractors & Business Association WITH INFLATION making life more unaffordable than ever in British Columbia as we head into a [Continue]

QUEEN ELIZABETH II – A modernizer who steered the monarchy into 21st century

September 8, 2022 // 0 Comments

By SEAN LANG Anglie Ruskin University WHEN THE LATE historian Sir Ben Pimlott embarked on his 1996 biography, his colleagues expressed surprise that he should consider Queen [Continue]

SUZUKI – Water runs through the climate crisis

September 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

SOMETIMES there’s too much water; sometimes not enough. A major challenge with global heating is that it doesn’t necessarily cause more or less of something in a specific [Continue]

EDUCATION – Why can’t Canada also address student loan debt?

August 30, 2022 // 0 Comments

America is taking a tentative step to help students. Canada needs to do much more to make post-secondary education affordable for all By ERIKA SHAKER Canadian Centre for [Continue]

TRANS MOUNTAIN – Killing project would hurt indigenous communities

August 8, 2022 // 4 Comments

By JOSEPH QUESNEL Troy Media Ottawa needs to finally declare through legislation that the Trans Mountain Expansion Project is to the national advantage of Canada. Doing so [Continue]

SUZUKI – We can’t look away from an overheating world

July 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

NEAR THE END of the film Don’t Look Up, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, astronomer Randall Mindy, turns to the people around him and says, “We really did have [Continue]

SUZUKI – For health habitats, leave it to beavers and other animal engineers

July 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

BEAVERS HAVE LONG BEEN considered nuisances. They knock down trees and block waterways, often flooding areas where humans live and gather. But recent moves to leave the [Continue]

SUZUKI – Despite record profits, oil industry greed is a bottomless pit

July 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

CANADA OFFERS some of the world’s most generous support for the fossil fuel industry, but industry executives want more. Even as they amass record profits, they’ve asked [Continue]

SUZUKI – Canada’s plastics ban is a good start but we need to go further

June 30, 2022 // 0 Comments

MOST OF US have seen images of sea turtles malformed by plastic six-pack rings, dead birds with stomachs full of debris, animals smothered by plastic bags… Our excessive [Continue]

SUZUKI – Report outlines Canada’s quick path to clean power

June 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

CANADA COULD BE a clean electricity powerhouse by 2035 — without building more large hydro dams or relying on expensive and sometimes unproven and dangerous technologies [Continue]

SCHOOLS – Teachers must stop undermining parental values

May 31, 2022 // 3 Comments

Teachers are hired to educate students, not to indoctrinate them By MICHAEL ZWAAGSTRA WHEN PARENTS SEND their children to school, they place a lot of trust in teachers. [Continue]

GARDNER – NDP government set to steamroll over rights of B.C. workers

April 19, 2022 // 1 Comment

By CHRIS GARDNER Independent Contractors and Business Association IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE that in 2022 in British Columbia, we are facing the prospect of a government [Continue]

ZELENSKY TO CANADA – ‘We want to live; we want to have peace’

March 15, 2022 // 1 Comment

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke via video link today to the Canadian Parliament. Here is the translation of his speech: Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, [Continue]

SUZUKI – Fueling a climate of uncertainty in a time of war

March 9, 2022 // 3 Comments

IT’S A TRAGIC TRUTH that some people are willing to inflict unfathomable suffering and death for the sake of power and wealth. From Russia’s aggression in Ukraine to [Continue]