CHARBONNEAU – ‘Supply chain’ should be a contender for phrase of the year
I’M PICKING ‘SUPPLY CHAIN’ as phrase of the year. While there were other strong candidates, the stark frailty of supply chains and its psychological backlash [Continue]
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BEPPLE – Here’s to those who got us through 2021, and will again in 2022
JANUARY IS NAMED after the Roman God Janus, who had two faces. One looked ahead, the other behind. So Jan. 1, which most of the of the world celebrates as New Year’s Day, [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – When Oak Hills became a lake; when a mountain fell
‘HAVE YOU EVER SEEN anything like this before?” This has become a mandatory question from reporters when they interview the victims of natural disasters. They ask it [Continue]
KNOX – Leaders damned if they show up at disasters, damned if they don’t
NATURAL DISASTERS can be disastrous for politicians. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice was scorned for shoe-shopping in New York as Hurricane Katrina hammered New Orleans in [Continue]
PETERS – What government can and cannot do in the face of natural disaster
CRITICISM OF GOVERNMENTS for not properly handling environmental catastrophes — like the one we saw last week — can at times be a little unfair. When Mother Nature truly [Continue]
TEGART – It’s hard to have hope right now but a lot of people are here to help
By JACKIE TEGART MLA, Fraser Nicola “WHAT YOU ARE COMING HOME TO is a city that’s changed.” Those were the words of Merritt Mayor Linda Brown this week, as she shared [Continue]
