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In seasonIn preparation for this week’s United Nations food summit in Rome, UN food chief Jacques Diouf staged a 24-hour hunger strike in that city’s UN headquarters. The goal was to bring attention to the one… more
An old sailor goes to AfghanistanVICTORIA – Remembrance Day reveries about the sacrifice of our ancestors weren’t much on my family’s mind this year. My eldest brother landed at Kandahar Air Field some time in the pre-dawn hours of … more
911 – Be part of the solution, not part of the problemDid you ever call 911 because you had an emergency and the first thing that the 911 operator said was, “Is this an emergency or can you hold?” You told him/her you could hold. Then you held, and held,… more |
Wave if you are localThis is neither an attempt nor an effort to reopen the old, ‘who is a local’ debate. As far as I’m concerned the questio… moreSockeye go on the witness standVICTORIA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s decision to have a judicial inquiry into the sockeye salmon crisis has the po… moreWar gamesAs children in school we all played memory games. A teacher would show a flash card and hands would shoot up to test our… moreThe Lord Lovat Scouts in JasperOn a recent trip to Grande Prairie my kids were very interested in the Columbia Icefields so we made a point of stopping… moreSometimes technology lets us downRecently, I was made aware of a situation where a high school student made a number of attempts to contact my office by … moreB.C. VIEWS: U.S. interests pull our strings againVICTORIA – If you go to the grocery store and buy a can of sockeye salmon right now, chances are it will say “product of… moreRafe Mair responds on rivers, salmonFormer Socred cabinet minister and broadcaster Rafe Mair submitted the following letter to the editor to our 70 B.C. new… more |
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