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Community volunteers create great Canada Day celebrations

The Chamber of Commerce executive wishes to extend our deep appreciation to all those involved in our Canada Day barbeque fundraiser

Peasants pay - rich find loopholes

Even when there was no collusion, the tax burden was invariably shuffled onto the peasants! While the rich found innumerable legal loopholes to escape it

Mackenzie takes retirement

I am sure that many residents of Clearwater and the North Thompson Valley will want to join me in congratulating Dr. Bob Mackenzie on his retirement

Discrimination still a problem

The Walk4Justice is a good reminder that, even though we owe them a great deal, we non-native Canadians have generally not treated our indigenous neighbors well

GVRD sludge full of chemicals

Does no one stop to consider the cumulative effect of all the industrial wastes and other contaminants that are daily flushed down the drains?

BASS: Lake-Moats political battle could be contest for the ages

A Lake-Moats fight could be interesting and might be the NDP’s only chance of unseating the MLA
B.C. VIEWS: Nisga'a treaty no panacea

B.C. VIEWS: Nisga'a treaty no panacea

There were high hopes and harsh words in 2000 when the provincial and federal governments signed Canada’s first modern-day treaty with the Nisga’a people of northwestern B.C.

Taxpayers on the hook with Flaherty budget

Well it didn’t take the bulldog-graced Irishman (Flaherty) long to let us know just who is going to pay for his corporate tax breaks - you, you suckers!

Minister of Finance replies to letter from B.C. Federation president

I have admitted time and time again that government did a horrible job introducing the HST, but to suggest we lied to British Columbians is simply not true

Writer ponders one plus one

There are so many interesting doors to open and corridors to explore from the content of K. Ferguson’s letter of June 13, in response to my May 30 ponderings about 1+1+1+1....