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EDITORIAL – Hot Nite was a welcome break but this pandemic isn’t over

August 9, 2021 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT WAS SURREAL to walk downtown on Saturday through the throngs attending Hot Nite in the City. It actually wasn’t hot, with temperatures [Continue]

GRAHAM – Health, wealth and common sense: the social contract revisited

August 9, 2021 // 1 Comment

By PIERCE GRAHAM Guest Columnist ONE OF THE FOUNDATIONS of civilized society is, surely, the notion of the common good, or the benefits of living other than alone in caves, [Continue]

KNOX – Wildfire reality is slow to sink in outside the B.C. Interior

August 8, 2021 // 4 Comments

I CAN’T THINK of Monte Lake without thinking of the log boom. Wouldn’t want to slip between the logs, my mother said as we drove past. You might not find your way back [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – If you were told to leave everything behind, would you?

August 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

IF A MASSIVE WILDFIRE was roaring towards your home, and you were told to evacuate, would you? A surprising number wouldn’t. As crews fought — unsuccessfully, in large [Continue]

PETERS – Are we finally ready to agree on climate change?

August 7, 2021 // 1 Comment

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc revelation of unmarked graves near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School site has been said before. It’s not that [Continue]

NATIONAL PULSE – Liberals open more daylight over CPC, COVID still a big issue

August 5, 2021 // 0 Comments

By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE August 5, 2021 – The threat of a fourth wave of COVID-19, driven by the highly contagious Delta variant, has Canadian governments and health [Continue]