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SUZUKI – We only have one Earth, and we’re overshooting its capacity

August 9, 2017 // 3 Comments

AUGUST 2 was Earth Overshoot Day. Unlike Earth Day or Canada Day, it’s not a time to celebrate. As the Earth Overshoot Day website explains, it marks the time when “we [Continue]

WILDFIRES – RCMP command post in Williams Lake gets special thank you

August 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

WILLIAMS LAKE — Nearly 100 Mounties in Williams Lake broke into applause during an operational briefing when Staff Sergeant Clarkson, deployed to the B.C. Wildfires from [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Is economic decline the product of slow and steady leadership?

August 8, 2017 // 1 Comment

I SOMETIMES wonder if I’d have anything to write about on our local economy were it not for Ajax. What if 15 or so years ago, the City had set course on a different path? [Continue]

HEALTH – Charlie Gard and the metaphor of medical ‘warfare’

August 8, 2017 // 1 Comment

By IAN MITCHELL and JULIET GUICHON University of Calgary THE METAPHOR of battling illness is common but pernicious. The recent news of U.S. Sen. John McCain’s brain cancer [Continue]

LETTER – Kamloops is a magnet for air pollution, and there are no ‘safe’ levels

August 8, 2017 // 8 Comments

Like many of us for the past number of weeks I have been sitting in a semi-dark home waiting for the temperature to drop and the sky to clear. Outside has an apocalyptic feel [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Does wildfire volunteer effort need to get a second wind?

August 8, 2017 // 2 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. YOU COULD call it volunteer fatigue, or maybe volunteer dropout. After a few weeks of high-energy response to the wildfire [Continue]