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ROTHENBURGER – News media need a new business model, not handouts

November 24, 2018 // 0 Comments

THE NEWS MEDIA are about to get help from the taxpayer — it’s help they neither deserve nor need. Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau this week announced $600 million [Continue]

LETTER – It’s not just about safe drug use, it’s about change to lifestyle

November 24, 2018 // 0 Comments

Re: ‘Why drug consumption sites for kids are not so outrageous’ It is a condemnation of our society, I feel, that things have come to the point where this is [Continue]

PETERS – More than just an irritation, Christmas Creep could be health hazard

November 24, 2018 // 0 Comments

CHRISTMAS CREEP shows no signs of abating, does it? Costco, of course, has long been the retail standard-bearer for introducing holiday merchandise well ahead of the holidays [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – When nature gives you tar sands, make carbon fibres

November 23, 2018 // 0 Comments

OIL SANDS crude prices have hit rock bottom. The future could be in the tar -the bitumen. The original name for the deposits, tar sands, should be restored because that’s [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Let’s meet the folks who support First Past the Post

November 23, 2018 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ONE OF THE STRANGEST arguments in favour of Proportional Representation is that the wrong people support First Past the Post. “Want a good [Continue]

EDITORIAL – It’s a lot safer not to name new facilities after people

November 22, 2018 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THERE’S A LESSON to be learned about naming public structures after people — don’t, unless you make sure the public is onside. The new [Continue]