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Graduates in Houston

Graduates in Houston

Last week, 10 minutes before my deadline I was overwhemled by the good news Houston received about Buy-Low-Foods.

Culture clash key to the province’s minority talks

Looking through the power sharing agreement between B.C.’s two ambitious opposition parties, it’s difficult to see what the three-member B.C. Greens gain in supporting the 41-member B.C. NDP.Bridge tolls are one example. Green leader Andrew Weaver campaigned to keep them, and proposed expanding the user-pay principle to other big infrastructure, such as a second crossing of Okanagan Lake at Kelowna. Tolls are also way to get more people onto public transit.
Hands on education

Hands on education

According to Types of Learners from Lyceum Books, there are four primary learning styles. These include visual, auditory, read-write, and kinesthetic.

Yes, Christie Clark won the election

Some of the news outlets that breathlessly covered the recent B.C. election as if it was a sporting event had trouble digesting the final score.

Closure of the Houston Northwest Community College campus

The Northwest Community College (NWCC) campus in Houston was a hub that welcomed everyone and facilitated all sorts of programs that brought residents together.

Standing up to tent squatters in British Columbia

Two B.C. municipalities were in court last week, trying to get injunctions against new tent camps that are trying to get established in their communities. One is on a city-owned vacant lot on Main Street in Vancouver. Another is next to the highway bypass in Maple Ridge, an area plagued by transient camps in the past.
Don’t hold Alberta ‘hostage,’ Rachel Notley warns

Don’t hold Alberta ‘hostage,’ Rachel Notley warns

The TransMountain pipeline expansion is approved by Ottawa and no province should attempt to hold another one “hostage” by attempting to block a federal project, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said Tuesday.

Two years sober, debunking addiction

This past May 18, I celebrated two years sober. (Except for the ceremonial wine I sip when I attend church with my mother. “That doesn’t count, that’s just Christ’s blood,” I say to her.)

Houston should keep parks

I have an invested interest in Jamie Baxter campground.

Proactive versus reacative bylaw enforcement

The reactive method, where action from appropriate personnel is taken only when a complaint has been made,