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Liberal Cheryl Thomas Resigns After True North Times Revelations

The Liberal Party candidate of Victoria, British Columbia, Cheryl Thomas, has resigned after comments she made about Israelis, Mosques, and the ethnicity of Santa Clause were revealed as the final entry in our ...

First Nation Rejects Billion Dollar LNG Deal

Skeena River First Nations Last week, the Lax Kw’alaams band in northern British Columbia rejected an offer from Petroliam Nasional Bhd., which offered $1.15 billion compensation to the community in exchange ...

Squamish Voter Apathy About To Go Up In Flames

Canadian voters tend to be apathetic. A simple Wikipedia search on Canadian voter turnout – which probably requires too much energy for the average voter – reveals numbers hovering around an uninspired 60% sinc...

BC Parents to BC Teachers: “Let’s Get Physical”

This Saturday, the BC Teachers' Federation met with the government for secret talks under a media blackout. The talks, attended by a mediator, continued until midnight. The next day, it became apparent that ano...

BC High School Students Plan Walk-In

As Labour Day came and went, students across the country were herded back into schools like confused cattle into slaughterhouses. Teens from Nova Scotia to Yukon Territory crawled back into classrooms, many wis...

No New BC Strike Deal After Back To School Week Wraps Up

Don’t rush off to do your back to school shopping just yet, folks. Months after British Columbia teachers escalated their job action to a full strike, the BC Teachers’ Federation and the BC Ministry of Educa...

Premiers Celebrate Charlottetown Conference In Style

As most Canadians probably know, September 1, 2014 marks the 150th anniversary of the Charlottetown Conference. The Conference was a milestone in our nation’s history. It marked a time where separate groups cam...

Conflict of Interest: Regional Aboriginal Chief Runs for Liberals

Public servants are tasked with working for the Canadian public. They must put aside their political leanings in the belief that they work for all Canadians no matter their ideology, and when they present thems...

Gun Fever is on the Rise in B.C. and Alberta Amid New Laws

Gun fever is on the rise in British Columbia and Alberta, and for a reason so comically Canadian, I feel like clown music should be playing as you read this article. This weapondemic (weapon+epidemic) paired wi...

4 BC Events That Weren’t Archived, So We’ll Never Know About Them

The years of 2004 to 2014 will be forever remembered as a time in British Columbia when nothing happened. The wind may have blown, the snow may have fallen, but in terms of human civic history, not a peep was h...

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