WE ENDED THE PREVIOUS YEAR with a big sigh and dutifully wished each other a better 2021. Life coaches out there will tell you that positive thinking will get things done, [Continue]
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WHEN ALLEGATIONS SURFACED of B.C. frontline medical staff playing guessing games about the blood-alcohol levels of indigenous patients, they [Continue]
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE B.C.TOURISM INDUSTRY wants $680 million of federal money. That’s in addition to already existing recovery plans. There’s no [Continue]
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE STATUE VANDALS were at it again on the weekend, splattering pink paint on likenesses of Sir John A. Macdonald, King Edward VII and [Continue]
IT WILL TAKE DECADES to change the ingrained racism embedded in our society. That’s what a well-informed, well-connected senior statesman of the community told me the [Continue]
JUST WHEN YOU THINK things might be getting better, a post like this is shared on local social media saying: “Got a speeding ticket near a Dennys. Do I burn down the [Continue]
By JEREMY HEIGHTON Executive Director, NSBIA THERE HAS BEEN A TON of press lately about de-funding police, and changing the way that policing is done in Canada and around the [Continue]
I AM OLD ENOUGH to have watched and been inspired by President Kennedy as he explained in a 1963 speech why desegregation of schools and universities in Alabama was [Continue]
Statement by RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki: June 12, 2020 Ottawa, Ontario As the Commissioner of the RCMP and as leader, I have the responsibility to ensure that our [Continue]
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT LOOKS VERY MUCH as though all front-line police in Canada will be wearing body cameras in the future and it’s about time. Prime [Continue]
THURSDAY’S PROTEST AND MARCH through downtown Kamloops may have been one of the most successful cancelled events ever. Just over an hour before the Black Lives Matter [Continue]
OUR JOKE IS that Lindsay Wong and I are doppelgangers, because we aren’t. She’s young, female, stylish, Asian, Ivy League-educated and a bunch of other things I am not. [Continue]
THE DEFINITION OF SYSTEMIC is something that “relates to or affects an entire system.” That’s the Meriam-Webster entry. Different dictionaries have somewhat different [Continue]
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WE NEED SOMETHING right now to reassure ourselves that the human race is capable of getting along. Something symbolic but meaningful, a [Continue]