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CHARBONNEAU – One-time handout to the homeless reduces social costs

October 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT MAY SEEM counterintuitive to give cash to homeless people. Didn’t their poor money skills get them on the street in the first place? The University of British Columbia [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Deadline rule for mail-in ballots needs to be changed

October 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WITH TWO DAYS TO GO to election day in B.C., some 700,000 British Columbians have asked for mail-in ballots. Elections BC has been slow [Continue]

POLICE – Another incident brings RCMP to upper Columbia Street

October 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

Police were called to a hotel on upper Columbia Street again today (Oct. 21, 2020), this time in response to a domestic dispute. The call, to the Panorama Inn in the 600 [Continue]

EDITORIAL – What if a union endorsed Liberals instead of New Democrats?

October 21, 2020 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. AN INTERESTING little sidebar to the local election campaign played out yesterday over whether a City of Kamloops union should be [Continue]

BEPPLE – Advance, mail-in ballots will play key role in election results

October 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT MAY WELL BE that we will know the outcome of the American election before we know the results of the B.C. provincial election. Over 700,000 mail in ballots were requested [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Wilkinson’s leadership hangs in the balance this week

October 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IN THE WANING DAYS of the provincial election, BC Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson has been distracted from his key policy promises — such [Continue]