Election 2019

EDITORIAL – Election-sign vandals should pay a heavy penalty if caught

October 7, 2019 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger IT SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE that election signs are being vandalized. It happens pretty much every election. Usually, signs are knocked [Continue]

PETERS – Campaign all smear and no substance but it’s not too late

October 5, 2019 // 1 Comment

JOSHUA KNAAK TWEETED THIS WEEK that this might be the worst election in Canadian history — and he might not be wrong. It has been vapid and vaccuous, lacking both [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Can party leaders please stop treating us like idiots?

October 3, 2019 // 6 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I LOVE FEDERAL ELECTIONS because they’re the ultimate expression of our democracy. Besides, I’m a political junkie. There are things [Continue]

BEPPLE – Kamloops candidates could take a lesson from John F. Kennedy

October 2, 2019 // 2 Comments

I HAD NOT QUITE been born in 1962 when U.S. President John F. Kennedy made his historic speech, “We choose to go to the Moon,” on Sept. 12, 1962. With that speech, the [Continue]

BEPPLE – Don’t let controversies stop you from voting on October 21

September 25, 2019 // 1 Comment

IT WAS TOUGH NEWS for the Liberal party last week, when photographs of Justin Trudeau in 2001 and previous years in brown-face and black-face hit the news like a [Continue]

NATIONAL PULSE – Trudeau’s blackface hurts Liberal prospects but CPC static

September 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE September 23, 2019 – The question was not whether damning revelations that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had participated in the demeaning act of [Continue]