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LETTER – Video of whale playing with log shows we have much to learn

December 10, 2018 // 0 Comments

On Dec. 2, as Christmas time approaches, Lifeforce Ocean Friends found a four year old humpback named “Lorax” playing with a log off Comox Harbour, BC. “Logging is [Continue]

EDITORIAL – The gutless revisionism of Christmas traditions

December 10, 2018 // 6 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. OK, WE CAN ALL STOP being cute and clever about Christmas carols. No more tongue-in-cheek demanding that Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer be [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – When will healthcare system wake up to the sleep crisis?

December 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

“YOU HAVE INSOMNIA,” the doctor told me as she scrolled through screen after screen of charts, graphs, notations and squiggly lines, the results of my night at the sleep [Continue]

LABOR – Back-to-work legislation may come back to haunt Justin Trudeau

December 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

By CHARLES SMITH University of Saskatchewan, and LARRY SAVAGE Brock University THE JUSTIN TRUDEAU government’s use of back-to-work legislation effectively put an end to the [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Blueberries march north to B.C., then south again

December 6, 2018 // 0 Comments

BLUEBERRIES HAVE ARRIVED arrived from Peru in my local store. Next they’ll be coming from Chile, then Mexico. As spring moves north, they will arrive from Florida. Then [Continue]

FORSETH – Just one issue in free, and not so free, interprovincial trade

December 6, 2018 // 0 Comments

IN DECEMBER 2014, federal, provincial and territorial governments began negotiations to strengthen and modernize the Agreement on Internal Trade – which last year (July 1, [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Social issues call for tiered approach to policing

December 6, 2018 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. AS DEMANDS ON POLICING become more and more onerous, it’s obvious some new ways of doing things are needed. Under a pilot program in [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Polls, turnout tell us final days could decide referendum

December 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THOUGH I’M NOT A MEMBER of any political party, I quite often receive emails from one of them urging me to take action. “Mel,” the [Continue]

BEPPLE – Yes, the auto sector is hurting but don’t forget our forest industry

December 5, 2018 // 2 Comments

LAST WEEK’S announcement of GM’s Oshawa plant made national news. Bad news for the 3,000 workers directly laid off. Bad news for their families, and for workers [Continue]

IN THE HOUSE – Blame for Trans Mountain delay squarely on Liberals

December 4, 2018 // 7 Comments

Excerpts from a speech by Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod in the House of Commons on Monday, Dec. 3, 2018: WHEN THE PRIME MINISTER took office, there were three [Continue]

NATIONAL PULSE – Opinions mixed on religious symbols in workplace

December 4, 2018 // 0 Comments

Proposed ban in Quebec appears widely supported; but crucifix, Star of David still seen as acceptable By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE December 4, 2018 – As various polls show [Continue]

GINTA – Let’s put the issue of school bus safety on Santa’s list

December 4, 2018 // 0 Comments

A FEW DAYS AGO, a school bus carrying ten youth and two adults was involved in an accident near Cache Creek. Fortunately, everyone survived; one person had critical, but [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Riverside Park entrance not the place for new development

December 4, 2018 // 10 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WHAT IS IT about the word “park” that developers don’t get? The plan to put a year-round market on the Heritage House parking lot in [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Densification, parking issues are realities in downtown core

December 3, 2018 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IN THIS INCREASINGLY NOISY WORLD, it’s getting harder to listen. We’re so busy, and so ready to be skeptical, that we often don’t [Continue]