Other Voices

MEDIA – Finding salvation in the ashes of the daily newspaper business

August 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

By PETER MENZIES SOMETIME in the not-too-distant future, the nation’s largest media chain is expected to fail, taking many of the nation’s once proud but now emaciated [Continue]

TRAVIS – 2017 B.C. election was the most expensive in history

August 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

B.C.’s 2017 ELECTION will go down in the history books and in more ways than one. The province’s closest election also turned out to be its most expensive. While the [Continue]

HISTORY – Statues tell stories that people need to hear

August 22, 2017 // 1 Comment

By GERRY BOWLER Senior Fellow Frontier Centre for Public Policy FRANTIC OFFICIALS in the American south are joining with the Taliban and Islamic State as the latest group to [Continue]

POLITICS – Feuding ideologies the second American civil war?

August 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

By JONI AVRAM VARIOUS COMMENTATORS have concluded that America is in the throes of its second civil war. Dennis Prager, a conservative radio host, has concluded that the [Continue]

FIRBY – The age of civility has entered a dangerous time

August 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

CANADIANS are front-row spectators to the swelling social chaos in the United States, so close that we can feel the heat, sweat and blood. So close, in fact, that we need to [Continue]

SUZUKI – Wildfires are a wake-up call about the reality of climate change

August 16, 2017 // 1 Comment

WILDFIRES ARE sweeping B.C. Close to 900 have burned through 600,000 hectares so far this year, blanketing western North America with smoke. Fighting them has cost more than [Continue]