This past week was Royal Canadian Legion Week.
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On April 15, 1912, the White Star Liner Titanic began to sink into the icy waters of the North Atlantic — a terrifying sight as the mass of crafted iron and steel dropped towards the ocean floor.
I was in my second year at university when, in October 1957, the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a satellite in orbit. That was the first step in an amazing saga of firsts that not only led to humans landing on the moon, but also enabled communications around the world using sate…
Canada’s news publishers, who employ 3,000 journalists from coast to coast to coast, believe that free speech, journalistic freedom, and a strong, healthy, commercially viable, and fiercely independent media ecosystem are all vital to our democracy.
October is another great month for gamers.
OVERVIEW: The push for action is more intense with the full moon energy combined with mercury returning to apparent forward motion. Many will be more focused on getting going or at least catching up to some degree. Try to maintain a position on any ground gained. Some are trying to work thei…
We who live in the enlightened western nations tend to heap scorn on the Hindu caste system. We don’t recognize that we have our own caste systems.
Need to make $25/hr to afford basic rent
CBC announcers not like they were
Thanks to stranger at the Merganser
Loving memories of Lachlan Nicholson
Bicycle heaven comes before everything else
EDITOR’S NOTE: Sarah Hansen, a Grade 10 student at Princess Margaret School, is a finalist in a national poetry writing competition with her poem “Remembrance Lesson.” We are pleased to feature her poem.
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This is the long weekend where we connect and celebrate together, turning our hearts to thankfulness. There is a remarkable power in appreciation. It is a superpower that changes things.
A rising tide of people in this country apparently believe — body, mind, and spirit — that they are called overthrow the established powers-that-be. By any means. Including physical insurrection.
B.C. Premier John Horgan and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry have thrown our school board trustees under the bus.
Would the real Justin Trudeau please stand up
Oct. 9 is World Hospice Palliative Care Day
Two Michaels event was unforgivable
Climate deniers get your collective heads out of the sand
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Do you have a favourite teacher? I certainly do. Mrs. Paulding.
The following media release was sent Sept. 30, 2021.
Today happens to be my old schoolmate David Bryson’s birthday. It prompts me to venture deep into nostalgia.
Underneath my stairs, we have a storage area filled with plastic storage boxes from Walmart.
Webster’s dictionary might have to change
Kena Bridge of Spirits
Bike lanes are financial disaster
People crying about freedoms are limiting ours
Penticton is a truly caring community
Final thoughts from local Green candidate
A small news item, tucked away in the back pages of my newspaper, said that across the U.S. more and more people were citing “religious exemptions” to avoid, well, to avoid almost anything they don’t like.
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Monday night’s federal election is now a distant memory. Like the entire ninth season of “Dallas,” it was all a dream.
With the holiday season approaching, Activision Blizzard has the launch of the annual Call of Duty game coming up. The game generates millions of
Conservatives need to dump Erin O'Toole
Usually, around this time of year, we start to think about Thanksgiving.
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My last report as a Member of Parliament was on Aug. 11. While that was just six weeks ago, it is remarkable what has happened in that time.
In 2017, an elongated rocky object came into the solar system from interstellar space, flew past the sun and planets and returned to the dark, cold space between the stars.
FREE WILLS CLINIC
Sweden, Norway doing things right
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Studying the numbers from Monday night’s election in South Okanagan-West Kootenay, the final result wasn’t surprising. The individual percentages were.
Conservatives have weak climate record
Thank you from the Summerland food bank
The subprime mortgage crisis in 2008 was the worst worldwide financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. This financial crisis was particularly severe in the U.S. and Europe.
In the recent federal election campaign, several of the parties promised to eliminate the fossil fuel industry and replace it with renewable energy.
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“Confusion now hath made his masterpiece” (Macbeth).
September is another great month for gamers on PC, Cloud and Xbox systems.
I will be so happy once Monday comes and goes and the federal election is finally over.
We’ve had a vaccination passport for slightly under a week here in B.C. Obviously, it’s causing problems for the stores and restaurants that have to check patrons at the door — especially when some of those patrons, who should know better, verbally abuse a high school kid 30 years their junior.
