Changes to the Workers Compensation Act will add eight more cancers to the workers’ compensation cancer presumptions for firefighters. The provincial government is amending the…
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Permanent daylight saving time coming March 8
The Province of British Columbia announced today it is adopting permanent year-round daylight saving time (DST), except in the East Kootenay. ‘Spring forward’ on March…
The courage to move forward
By Peter Christensen Op-Ed Commentary When governments embrace chronic rumination—dwelling endlessly on historical wrongs—they develop what psychologists recognize in individuals: a paralysis that masquerades as…
Tilting at Windmills
By Peter Christensen Op-Ed Commentary Don Quixote, a story written in Spanish by Miguel de Cervantes, is considered to be Western Literature’s first novel. Originally published in…
MLA urges Premier to repeal DRIPA
BC Conservative Party Critic for Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation Scott McInnis, MLA for Columbia River Revelstoke, says Premier David Eby must stop gaslighting the public…
Premier’s statement on Remembrance Day
Letter to the Editor On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, at the precise moment in 1918 that guns were…
We recommit to walking the path of truth and reconciliation
Letter to the Editor Today, we remember the children who never returned home from residential school. We stand with the survivors of these depraved institutions…
Bread and circuses in the Age of Idiots
Kootenay Crust By Ian Cobb (Op-Ed Commentary with some foul language) We live in an age where idiots are celebrated and, in the case of…
Premier’s statement on B.C. Day
Letter to the Editor B.C. Day gives us all a chance to celebrate living in spectacular British Columbia. British Columbia is a place of extraordinary…
What we have accomplished together
Letter to the Editor Today, millions of people across our vast, beautiful land – from Bonavista to Vancouver Island, from the Arctic Circle to the…