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EDITORIAL – The perfect way to waste money – Summit pedestrian overpass

April 13, 2023 // 15 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IF THE BRAIN TRUST at City Hall sat down to think of the perfect way to waste several million dollars, it couldn’t come up with anything [Continue]

FIRE – Cause of Seymour Street fire deemed ‘undeterminable’

April 12, 2023 // 0 Comments

The cause of a residential fire on Seymour Street has been deemed undeterminable at this time, despite a current police presence at the address. On April 6, 2023, around 5 [Continue]

LETTER – Transparency, accountability by City council would be a good thing

April 12, 2023 // 7 Comments

On March 31, 2023, the Mayor requested that Councillor Neustaeter clarify her allegation that he had violated her personal boundaries, an allegation that she had made in [Continue]

EDITORIAL – BC Housing continues with its ‘done deal’ approach on shelters

April 12, 2023 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. BC HOUSING works in mysterious ways. I mean that both in the sense of being hard to understand, and of operating in an atmosphere of [Continue]

EDITORIAL – There’s good cause for concern about minimum wage hike

April 11, 2023 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE MINIMUM WAGE will go up again June 1 — the usual anniversary for such increases — and businesses are already crying the blues. But [Continue]

EDITORIAL – NDP government’s housing mandate threatens civic autonomy

April 10, 2023 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THERE’S SOMETHING TROUBLING about the NDP government’s latest plan to increase housing in the province. Actually, there’s a lot [Continue]