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NATIONAL PULSE – City halls, campuses fair game for protests but not hospitals

April 30, 2024 // 2 Comments

Majorities also believe schools, churches should be off limits for demonstrations By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE April 30, 2024 – While demonstrations are far from new phenomena [Continue]

EDITORIAL – More talk than action at annual regional municipal conflab

April 30, 2024 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. MAYORS AND COUNCILLORS, some 250 of them, from the Southern Interior get together in Kamloops starting today for some drinks, a round of [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Eby’s backtrack on public drug use is a good start but that’s all

April 29, 2024 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE DECISION to scale back decriminalization and seek a change allowing enforcement against wanton consumption on illicit drugs in public is [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – A conversation with the mayor, in his inner sanctum

April 28, 2024 // 5 Comments

I sat down with Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson in his City Hall office Friday to discuss… his office, of course, and the controversy surrounding when he’s allowed to be [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – How governments self-promote instead of inform

April 27, 2024 // 5 Comments

ARE OUR PUBLIC BODIES in the information business, or the propaganda business? The answer might seem obvious but their way of going about it can be annoying. Every time one [Continue]

DRUGS – Eby moves to make decrim changes on use of illicit drugs in public

April 26, 2024 // 3 Comments

The NDP government wants the feds to make illicit drug use illegal in all public spaces, including inside hospitals, on transit and in parks. The move comes after weeks of [Continue]