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Gaming grant review heads to the Cariboo

With the recent announcement of the Community Gaming Grant Review session coming to Williams Lake, I wanted to take this chance to encourage everyone with a vested interest to attend.

Nisga’a treaty can’t put fish back in the sea

Editor: Re: A decade on, treaty no panacea (Tom Fletcher column, published in Tribune Weekend July 15).

Are Smart Meters a smart move?

A person could be excused for feeling a little groggy after imbibing in research on Smart Meters, those little digital units that are intended to make consumers more aware of their energy consumption.

Cost of living higher under HST

Editor: Buying my daily newspaper now costs me an additional $60 per year thanks to the HST.

Employment Insurance is just another bad tax

Editor: People buy insurance to protect themselves when things are not good or get worse.

Close encounters of the wild kind

I’ve had a very animal-filled day. With horses, sheep, chickens, dogs and a cat you could say every day is animal filled around here, but this day was more about wildlife than the domestic type.

HST strengthens forest industry

Editor: We have heard a lot of talk about the downside of the HST. I want to share what the impact of the HST is on our company — an impact shared by others throughout the industry.

HST bad for average income families

Editor: In MLA Donna Barnett’s response to the B.C. Federation of Labour’s efforts to ensure British Columbians have the real facts on the HST, she repeats her government’s manufactured and absolutely false “facts.”

City’s metal container bylaw ridiculous

Editor: I was not happy to read about Williams Lake City Council and the zone amendment bylaw readings to regulate the place of metal shipping containers in the city.

An emerging opportunity

Wouldn’t it be great if your clothes were made from biomass rather than petrochemicals? How about cosmetics coloured by nano-chemicals from trees rather than toxic dyes?