Opinion

The interest payments on British Columbia’s provincial debt this year could pay the salaries of 4,600 new paramedics for ten years. But, instead of paying for first responders or providing tax relief to families, a whopping $2.

In politics, workplaces, everyday conversation with acquaintances and even friends, not saying what we actually believe is too common. It can be seen as kind, polite, or that dreadful word, nice.

The most common response (417 respondents, representing 42 per cent) said to demolish it and sell the land to pay for a new arts centre.

This memory of my grandmother’s joy for women achieving great accomplishments returned recently when RoseAnne Archibald from the Taykwa Tagamou Nation claimed victory as the National Chief for the Assembly of First Nations.

Debra was flustered. She had taken over a business with the intent of growing it but had come to the realization that increasing the sales might be easier said than done.

Clearly, there is a definite link, a profound bond that is growing between Palestinians and colonialized and oppressed peoples around the world.

We must stop current logging practices, stop the mining, stop expensive oil and gas exploration and stop building pipelines and infrastructure for fossil fuels.

Asked pretty much any question about the present state of politics and it tends to be young adults who are disillusioned by the process.

The most common response (417 respondents, representing 42 per cent) said they feel the pace has been just right.

This summer, in B.C. alone we are sitting at the nexus of several crises: climate change and opioid deaths, burial sites of murdered and then discarded Indigenous children, class war on the houseless, brutal extraction of old growth trees, a truly global pandemic.