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FLOOD WATCH – More watershed planning needed to avoid disasters

September 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

By Prof. PHIL ELDER University of Calgary IT WOULD be callous to respond unsympathetically to the Houston and area hurricane and flood, and the consequences: death, general [Continue]

KNOX – Status quo is main factor in who pays for hospital parking

September 10, 2017 // 3 Comments

WHEN CAMPBELL RIVER’S brand new hospital is unveiled today (Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017), one of the planned features will be missing: pay parking. Ditto for the new [Continue]

COLLINS – A Liberal Speaker – who would have thunk it?

September 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

THE ELECTION of B.C. Liberal MLA Darryl Plecas as Speaker of the Legislature Friday was interesting on so many fronts. First of all, it certainly got around the NDP/Green [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Go hard on graffiti vandals, be soft with panhandlers

September 9, 2017 // 8 Comments

WHEN WE’RE making laws, we should think about the consequences and roots of illegal acts before we get all sanctimonious. Laws are created to control behavior, and some [Continue]

PETERS – Public safety ignored in Schoenborn decision

September 8, 2017 // 2 Comments

WHEN THE JUSTIC system deals with someone like Allan Schoenborn, public safety must be its number one concern. The system has already decided to treat the man who killed his [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Help fentanyl labs make a safer drug

September 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

ILLEGAL FENTANYL lab operators don’t intend to kill users. They would prefer to have return customers. The problem, I suspect, is that the fentanyl used is so concentrated [Continue]