Opinion

‘We used masks in combination with our other layers to give us the protection we needed’

Will micro and macro changes to the world economy hurt or help B.C. in 2022?

B.C.’s jobs minister recently addressed the issue of pandemic recovery in northern communities and suggested more people are working today than prior to the pandemic. What wasn’t addressed in any meaningful way is the very real impact of thousands of potential job losses in the forest sector because of government policy changes that include vast and immediate deferrals of B.C.

Column: What habits do other drivers have that bother you on the road?

Use your COVID common sense and don’t be rude, Schisler says

By mid afternoon, the party started really taking off

Canadians are often portrayed as polite, decent, unassuming, and hard to anger. That characterization is especially apparent compared to our brash noisy neighbours to the south. It was therefore not surprising that the occupation of large sections of our national capital, and the very unneighbourly honking of horns at all hours, was met with widespread disapproval by most Canadians. Angus Reid Institute pointed out that three quarters of Canadians just wanted the protesters to go home.

Scrolling through my social media feed last week, I came across a clip of Pierre Elliott Trudeau being interviewed during the FLQ crisis in 1970. When CBC interviewer Tim Ralfe confronted the Prime Minister about putting troops on the streets of Quebec to deal with the threat, Trudeau shrugged and said, “Yeah, well there’s a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don’t like to see people with helmets and guns.

Canada’s largest land conservation organization says there has never been a more important time for nature conservation

‘Simply put, to know how to improve, you must know how you’re doing’