Opinion

"Canada has deemed the risks of using the 1960s-era tutor jets too great. They are expected to return with a new fleet in 'the early 2030s'."

"People throw the term artificial intelligence around - AI for short - like a household word. But while pretty much all of us have heard it - even peppered it in our conversations - most of us can’t really say exactly what AI is…or exactly what it even does."

"This is about the coughing, sputtering system of justice in this province, this country, that can't seem to see the forest for the trees."

"Beyond policies and actions that have hurt America immeasurably, Trump has every appearance of suffering dementia…and a variety of mental illnesses."

"I've been through periods of high unemployment before and this just doesn't feel the same somehow."

"I really do wonder why anyone might think Canada would ever be a 51st state of the United States?"

"How much longer can the folks who voted for Donald Trump stand by him? That is more or less a rhetorical question because the answer is all-too-obvious."

"If I have had one consistent peeve through my life it's feeding wildlife."

"After decades of umpiring baseball games, I can tell you a sense of humour is indispensable."

"MLAs Tara Armstrong and Amelia Boultbee both quit within months the BC Conservative Party that got them elected. Armstrong will be recalled over it. Boultbee said on social media she plans to remain an independent, may have been her strategy all along."

"Twenty-five years or so from today, students of history will look back at the tipping point that signalled America’s decline as the singular world power with the most control of the fate of everyone on Earth."

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"While Black men and other men of colour suffer from a deck stacked against them - and it is true that women face more discrimination than men - it is Black women and other women of colour who suffer the most today."

"He's left more than a few folks wondering who the real Peter Milobar is."

"The U.S. has spent $1.3 Million per minute…PER MINUTE…for a month. That’s more than $50 Billion."

"People often feel deep shame when they are targeted. They don't want to talk about it."

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"It should go without saying…but I won’t…that certain genders and groups have long faced an uphill battle when trying to gain equal footing as human beings."

Amelia Boultbee pushed out a documentary-style video looking at the plight of residents of a small South Okanagan neighbourhood struggling with a failing private water utility.

"A HeroRAT is a special breed, they can develop skills and talents that range from detecting land mines in war-torn nations to diagnosing tuberculosis in humans."

"Keeping up with world and local events these days is like a cat chasing a laser pointer."

"It seems justice is something for the masses, for ordinary citizens, but not for the rich, white and powerful."