KNOX – Dampening the mood on progress against the pandemic
BEING A GLASS-ONE-FIFTH-EMPTY kind of guy, I had to dampen the mood. It came Friday as Island Health celebrated the injection of its millionth dose of COVID vaccine. “Who [Continue]
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EDITORIAL – Others look upon us more kindly than we do ourselves
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. NEVER HAVE SO MANY been so confused about what to do tomorrow. Canada Day has been cancelled or “postponed” in many communities, for a [Continue]
PETERS – Here’s what we should build into our new normal post-pandemic
THE PHRASE ‘NEW NORMAL’ has become so overused to become cliched, but there are several practices we have learned during this COVID-19 pandemic that should become our new [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Fist bumps and other things from the pandemic we should keep
PHASE TWO, WEEK ONE and things are looking fairly rosy as far as getting through the pandemic goes, assuming that SOB Delta variant doesn’t get a foothold in B.C. So, a few [Continue]
PETERS – Midway through the vaccine rollout, NACI’s curveball was not helpful
IS ASTRAZENECA REALLY a second-rate vaccine? The latest messaging from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) would certainly have you believe that. For [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Why am I getting apprehensive as the lockdown lifts?
I SHOULD BE THRILLED at the lifting of the pandemic. Instead, I feel a little uneasy. I’m not the only one. In a recent survey of Canadians by the polling firm Leger, 52 [Continue]
KNOX – Climate crisis didn’t end just because we’ve been fixated on plague
THREE YEARS AGO, a veteran forest campaigner was on the phone, bemoaning how little attention green-minded people were paying to the logging of old-growth on Vancouver [Continue]
BEPPLE – A few questions about B.C.’s new Snakes and Ladders COVID plan
YESTERDAY, THE B.C. GOVERNMENT released its four-step plan for getting back to normal. A grid of 24 blue and yellow squares outlining the steps we need to go through on our [Continue]
EDITORIAL – It will be very easy to blow the Four Step COVID recovery plan
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE BIG COVID ANNOUNCEMENT yesterday has brought a lot less cheering than I expected. After all, restrictions are going to ease up [Continue]
COVID – At long last, four-step plan points toward return to normal in B.C.
A “cautious” four-step plan for a return to normal in B.C. over the next few months was unveiled today (May 25, 2021) by Premier John Horgan and Dr. Bonnie Henry. The [Continue]
NATIONAL PULSE – Vaccine program gives Trudeau govt a shot in the arm
By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE May 21, 2021 – The medical feat of jabbing hundreds of thousands of Canadians with COVID-19 vaccines is not only bringing Canada closer to the end [Continue]
FORSETH – Age and income are not ‘barriers’ to getting vaccinated
THE HEADLINE of a news story in the Vancouver Sun on Tuesday (May 18), stated: “Vaccine information not reaching young adults in B.C., poll shows.” Leading off the [Continue]
NATIONAL PULSE – Most who’ve received AstraZeneca have no regrets
By ANGUS REIG INSTITUTE May 17, 2021 – As the rate of Canadians who have been vaccinated with at least one-dose of a COVID-19 vaccine surges to more than fifty per cent of [Continue]
PETERS – Minos’ proclamation drew a line in the sand — and most customers are on the other side
IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING that the life of a restaurant owner is not a lot of laughs right now — but for anyone who owns a Kamloops Greek restaurant not named Minos, life just [Continue]
