BEPPLE – Cities need new deal with Ottawa on infrastructure costs
LAST WEEK, I was in Ottawa. I spent the week with about 100 other local government elected officials from across Canada. Our goal: to make it more affordable for our [Continue]
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EDITORIAL – TNRD board gives itself a nice fat pay raise for Christmas
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT MUST BE CHRISTMAS. The Thompson-Nicola Regional District board, elected a year ago, has decided to follow tradition and give itself a [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Eby housing strategy pushes us back to the era of little boxes
THE MARCH TO TICKY TACKY continues apace. David Eby’s NDP government is determined to run roughshod over the rights of cities to plan how they’ll grow. Maybe Pete [Continue]
PETERS – We’re stuck with the bill for previous councils’ short-sighted water rate decisions
IT’S EASY TO UNDERSTAND why residents struggling in the midst of an affordability crisis might be more than a little miffed at the City of Kamloops right now. Any [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – ArriveCan disintegrating into ArriveCan’t
‘LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, this is your captain. Due to turbulence, ArriveCan has been grounded. We at Canada Border Services Agency apologize for inconvenience.” [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Plan to raise the smoking age year by year is brilliant
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WHAT IF we could ban all sales of tobacco? Think what it would do for the health of our country. Impossible, you say? Well, the UK is moving [Continue]
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