Opinion

Along with many others, I sat at through the Prosperity mine environmental assessment panel hearings last spring and heard the Taseko people say there was no way the mine could be built without destroying Fish Lake.

It’s not for lack of trying.

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This week I brought my Victoria staff up for a tour of the Cariboo and a planning session for the coming year. As a “caucus” MLA I didn’t have a direct budget for staffing; an amount was allocated to the NDP caucus budget and I was assigned some staff resources out of a common pool.

We live in a world where news (good/bad) and information (invaluable/worthless) travels around the globe faster than our poor human brains can take it all in, and these days reality TV is a pervasive (invasive) consumer product that sometimes imparts more than we might want to know.

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Editor:

Surprise, surprise.

Like many this last week I have been doing a lot of snow shovelling.