Welcoming a baby during a pandemic
Giving birth during a global pandemic is not a situation most people expect to be experiencing in their lifetime. Nonetheless, it is a situation many families currently face. […]
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Basic Income: A Done Deal?
The First World War speeded up the emancipation of women; the Second World War led to the creation of welfare states in all the industrialised countries. What great change will the coronavirus crisis bring us? […]
Some Reasons to Hope
You don’t feel like reading about the Plague today? Good. I don’t feel like writing about it again either. So here’s some reasons to hope, none of which are related to the coronavirus.
First, they have found a new way to combat malaria that gets around the problem of growing resistance to existing drugs and insecticides. […]
First, they have found a new way to combat malaria that gets around the problem of growing resistance to existing drugs and insecticides. […]
BRKH Custom Woodworking Ltd: Open for Business!
It took a little time, but BRKH Custom Woodworking Ltd., owned and operated by The Dunster Community Forest Society, has begun sales and production.
“The name was not easily decided on,” said General Manager Ray Thiessen. “There was a lot of brainstorming.”
They wanted a name that was unique to the Robson Valley, and specifically to Dunster. […]
“The name was not easily decided on,” said General Manager Ray Thiessen. “There was a lot of brainstorming.”
They wanted a name that was unique to the Robson Valley, and specifically to Dunster. […]
Escape from paradise
Sandy and I made our dash home amid the Coronavirus epidemic from a remote part of French Polynesia (FP). The island of Hiva Oa is in the Marquesas group on the far eastern edge of Polynesia, three hours by air from Tahiti. […]
Sue & Me2 B&B Opens!
By Andrea Arnold,
The old church building on Main Street in McBride across from “Sue and Me Eatery” has been given a new lease on life. The 70-year-old former church building has had an assorted history. […]
The old church building on Main Street in McBride across from “Sue and Me Eatery” has been given a new lease on life. The 70-year-old former church building has had an assorted history. […]
Extending Earth Day into a Spring of Learning
By Jean Ann Berkenpas Earth Day is on April 22 every year, and it’s a time to celebrate and give back to the planet that sustains us. It began in 1970, and in 50 years […]
Bangladesh – Swift Justice
By Gwynne Dyer The murders happened 45 years ago, and what remains of the family has been seeking vengeance ever since. One of the killers was caught a week ago – and he was hanged […]
Hungary: The First Casualty?
By Gwynne Dyer “Hello, dictator!” said Jean-Claude Juncker cheerily to Hungary’s leader, Victor Orbán, at a European Union summit meeting a couple of years ago. The president of the European Commission was only joking, of […]
Nobody Mention UBI
By Gwynne Dyer, When you lock the people down (to save their lives), you inevitably close down a lot of the economy as well. And the lockdown will definitely have to last in most countries […]
McBride Fire Chief looks back on 40 Years
By Andrea Arnold In January of 1980, when David Hruby and his wife Rosemary moved to McBride, he had no idea he would serve the area in a leadership role for over 40 years. Upon […]