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BC VIEWS: The state rescues your retirement (with VIDEO)

BC VIEWS: The state rescues your retirement (with VIDEO)

Liberals' expansion of Canada Pension Plan is modest, but it comes at a price and discourages individual responsibility
BC VIEWS: BC promotes poverty and crime

BC VIEWS: BC promotes poverty and crime

Premier Christy Clark will likely make poverty and housing an election issue, but her government's approach is flawed
BC VIEWS: Missing women inquiry pre-determined

BC VIEWS: Missing women inquiry pre-determined

Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett's position boils down to blaming racist, indifferent cops
BC VIEWS: Housing ‘crisis’ decades in the making

BC VIEWS: Housing ‘crisis’ decades in the making

Expo 86, and later the Vancouver Olympics, were designed to put B.C. and Vancouver on the world map
TIME WINDOWS: The Old Glory weather observatory

TIME WINDOWS: The Old Glory weather observatory

In the 1940s plans were launched to construct a meteorological observatory on Old Glory Mountain.
TIME WINDOWS: Reappraising the Franklin Expedition

TIME WINDOWS: Reappraising the Franklin Expedition

Two winters ago I connected with William Battersby, British author of a biography of James Fitzjames, who perished in the Arctic.
TIME WINDOWS: Farron memories

TIME WINDOWS: Farron memories

After the extension of its Columbia and Western line, the CPR focused its efforts on developing a maintenance centre through the Monashees.
TIME WINDOWS: Ben Shaw: Myth and Reality

TIME WINDOWS: Ben Shaw: Myth and Reality

When he failed to return from his trap line in December 1934, Ben Shaw’s friends in Rossland stared to worry.
TIME WINDOWS: Lilette Mahon: A mentor’s gift

TIME WINDOWS: Lilette Mahon: A mentor’s gift

When he married 22 year-old Lilette Rebbeck on April 26, 1911, Edward Mahon was nearing 50.
TIME WINDOWS: Edward Mahon: A stimulating childhood

TIME WINDOWS: Edward Mahon: A stimulating childhood

Castlegar founder Edward Mahon was born in 1862 into an influential Anglo-Irish family.