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GINTA – We can’t afford more train tracks and not through downtown

October 13, 2020 // 3 Comments

IT SOUNDS LIKEs a bit like an April Fool’s joke. CP will add another track through the downtown. Right. Because of course we need more train traffic through the downtown [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Excuse us for being skeptical about cancer clinic promises

October 13, 2020 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IF YOU WERE TO VISIT the cancer clinic at Royal Inland Hospital you’d see several patients sitting in the outer room, perhaps having a [Continue]

KNOX – Author Ian Haysom is not your father’s grandfather

October 11, 2020 // 1 Comment

THIS ISN’T THE BOOK I expected Ian Haysom to write. Having run the newsrooms of the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, BCTV, CHEK and Global B.C., and being a [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Why we shouldn’t fear the ‘suicide’ word in obituaries

October 11, 2020 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I WAS RECENTLY ASKED for my opinion on whether or not CFJC Today should publish an obituary as it was submitted, acknowledging that a man [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Following the herd and riding COVID-free on BC Ferries

October 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

AS WE SPEAK, I’m on Deck 4 of the MV Coastal Renaissance between Vancouver Island and the Mainland, her 21,000-horsepower diesel engines powering us across the strait at 23 [Continue]

PETERS – Wilkinson has a strong campaign but no knockout blow yet

October 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT SEEMS STRANGE to already be looking back at the provincial election campaign, but really there are two weeks left — and one week before advanced voting begins. For [Continue]