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EDITORIAL – Why drug consumption sites for kids are not so outrageous

November 20, 2018 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SAFE DRUG-CONSUMPTION sites for kids? Has B.C.’s drug problem gotten so out of hand that we now have to provide children with a place to [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – Will Kamloops-South Thompson be rural or urban under PR?

November 19, 2018 // 2 Comments

Debate between Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone and Premier John Horgan during Question Period on Monday, Nov. 19, 2018. T. Stone: There remain dozens of details that [Continue]

GINTA – What’s the best way to deal with a lack of empathy?

November 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

EVERY NOW AND THEN certain news makes me go silent. ‘How is that possible?’ is all I can think. Such was the case of the recent break-ins (yes plural, since it happened [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Thinking outside the (mail)box could cure postal woes

November 19, 2018 // 6 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WE’RE APPROACHING the Christmas season and the posties are into rotating strikes as they go after a new agreement with Canada Post. It’s [Continue]

LETTER – What if the system keeps putting minority in charge of majority?

November 19, 2018 // 4 Comments

Mr. Anderson, interim leader of the BC Conservatives, is staying out of the electoral reform debate because he feels the issue should be non-partisan. He’s right. This [Continue]

KNOX – A month after legalization, the feared potocalypse has yet to appear

November 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

THE MORNING AFTER Canada legalized recreational marijuana, I ran into Tommy Chong at the Victoria airport. Knowing the 80-year-old pot icon had flown in the day before for an [Continue]