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POLICE – Man hospitalized, woman in custody after Westsyde stabbing

July 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

A 20-year-old man is in hospital and a 19-year-old woman is in custody after a stabbing early today (July 23, 2017). RCMP responded to a complaint of a disturbance in [Continue]

KNOX – No butts about it, those cigarette-flickers burn us all

July 23, 2017 // 2 Comments

News item: Forest fires are raging throughout the B.C. Interior. One on northern Vancouver Island was thought to be human-caused. News item: Improperly discarded cigarettes [Continue]

CANADIAN TAXPAYERS – Financial disclosures that inspire dancing

July 23, 2017 // 2 Comments

By TODD MacKAY Canadian Taxpayers Federation IT’S A BIT ODD for a happy dance to breakout after a court ruling about financial reporting, but when Charmaine Stick got [Continue]

MURPHY – The Summer of Love in 1967 was a media event, not a revolution

July 23, 2017 // 2 Comments

IF YOU’RE a certain age, you’ll remember 1967’s fabled Summer of Love. Thousands of young people flocked to San Francisco where, often with the help of illegal [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Why machine politics wins election campaigns

July 22, 2017 // 2 Comments

THE BY-ELECTION for mayor got more interesting Friday, but the outcome more predictable. Dr. Cindy Ross-Friedman, one of the declared mayoralty candidates, sent around a [Continue]

PETERS – Wildfires part of the rent we pay for living in paradise

July 22, 2017 // 2 Comments

WHEN I WAS young, growing up on the prairies, B.C. was a mythical place. The rugged mountains and pristine lakes were the stuff of postcards and TV fishing shows, not real [Continue]