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HELSTON: Ski coach did more than just peep on his students
The case of a Seattle ski coach who secretly videotaped his young students while they were changing at Silver Star Mountain is despicable, creepy, and vile, but perhaps the saddest part is that all those young girls were betrayed and let down by someone they trusted—their own teacher. He wasn't a strange pervert looking through...
STAHN: Why we need more controlled burns in urban areas
Let me start by stating a simple fact we all need to understand — fire is natural. Not only is it natural, it is a much needed part of the ecological cycle. Regular fire is needed to keep noxious weeds at bay, to help encourage new growth and to keep wildfires from getting out of...
LOEWEN: The “poetry” in Canadian politics
For those that follow Canadian federal politics closely, we live in exceptional times. We live in a time when it is becoming increasingly clear that the governments that accommodate the day-to-day business of the world’s most powerful economies are doing just that: Accommodating the interests of business. A cursory glance at the news coming out...
JONESIE: To whoever wrote the threatening letters — just look what you’ve done
I’m just throwing this out there and hoping it finds you. I read the letter you sent. Everyone’s talking about it but it appears no one knows who you are, despite all the clues… your mom in a wheelchair… on welfare… some connection between OK Falls school and Pen High… perhaps your dad owns guns....
PARKER: Forgiving the world for llama drama
When I first sat down to write this column I spent twenty minutes scrolling through BuzzFeed articles that were completely irrelevant — articles about dogs, about biodegradable coffins, about how the art work on the covers of Sweet Valley High novels rivals pornography. I don’t know why I wasted twenty minutes of my life doing...
LOEWEN: Is Canada living through perilous times? A historical perspective
Given the revelations from the Snowden archives that we now have proof-positive of Canadian government and corporate surveillance of virtually everything that Canadians (and others abroad) say and do, one might forgive Canadians for believing that we live in uniquely perilous times. The times are so perilous that we even share this data with the...
JONESIE: Why that native guy didn’t go to jail for killing a pedestrian in Kamloops
Judging by the comments we’ve received and noticed elsewhere, there’s an outrage boiling in Kamloops over the sentence and then appeal for a local man who struck and killed a woman in a crosswalk with his pickup truck in 2012. His six-month jail sentence was just reduced to house arrest, in part because a Supreme...
PARKER: Bearing witness to the art (and emotion) of Oscar movies
I stopped watching the Oscars when the Academy decided to keep stiffing Leonardo DiCaprio. Titanic I understand, but Gangs of New York? Blood Diamond? Wolf of Wall Street? The Beach? Like, there is a conspiracy in there somewhere. Several years ago, in lieu of watching the actual event, I tried to start a new tradition...
