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Who doesn’t love a good barbecue?

Who doesn’t love a good barbecue?

The sun is out, gardens are sprouting and my pasty legs have been released from their cloth caves. Summer must be approaching! With summer comes one of my favourite ways to cook: the BBQ.
Always ambassadors

Always ambassadors

Recently I have enjoyed meeting several Syrian refugee families. Their lives have been disrupted through war and chaos in their homeland, and they have lived in refugee camps for several years.
Environmental action has consequences

Environmental action has consequences

Mr.
Biography paints a more personal picture of premier

Biography paints a more personal picture of premier

After more than three decades in politics as a rookie organizer, staffer, MLA, cabinet minister, and now premier, Christy Clark says the worst of all times was her first two years as leader of the caucus of B.C. Liberal members of the legislature.
Vote of conscience

Vote of conscience

On Tuesday morning, Cariboo-Prince George MP Todd Doherty stood up in the House of Commons to deliver a passionate speech about Bill C-14, the proposed assisted dying bill. "Mr.
Calculating the carbon efficiency of fuels

Calculating the carbon efficiency of fuels

Stoichiometry is the understanding of the measure or relationship of chemical compounds to one another in chemical reactions. It is the area of chemistry where students often stumble because it is related to the balanced chemical equation.
A new look at downtown

A new look at downtown

On Monday, I attended The Local Economy Solution workshop with guest presenter Michael Shuman. It isn't very often that I come away from these kinds of sessions with, not one, not two, but three big 'Aha' moments, but I did this time.
Planning for the unexpected

Planning for the unexpected

A few years ago our neighbour was grocery shopping on a Saturday afternoon with her four young children, eight months along with child number five.
It is time for CPC 2.0

It is time for CPC 2.0

I didn't make it down to Van City for the big conservative-palooza at the Vancouver Conference Centre.
Whitcombe confused about inflation and growth

Whitcombe confused about inflation and growth

Todd Whitcombe seems to have got confused about economic growth and inflation - inflation doesn't cause growth. Most commonly we use GDP (gross domestic product - a measure of all the goods and services produced in Canada in year) to measure growth.