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When Doug Cox and I first conceptualized the Helping Hands Benefit Concert, we anticipated the community would embrace the initiative. We weren’t wrong.

Bob Castle’s Under The Glacier cartoon for Jan. 29, 2019

Long road to accountability began with MLA disclosures

Fundraising concert Feb. 7 in Courtenay for those affected by Mariner Apartment flood

Bob Castle’s Under the Glacier cartoon for Jan. 22, 2019

Jock Finlayson is executive vice president and chief policy officer of the Business Council of BC

Negative-option billing is still legal for governments

In 1988, when NASA scientist James Hansen reported to Congress that evidence for human-caused global warming was near undeniable, conservative politicians including the U.K.’s Margaret Thatcher, U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Canada’s Brian Mulroney agreed that action was needed. In my home province of B.C., a right-leaning government, the B.C. Liberal Party, introduced a carbon tax in 2008.

Bob Castle’s Unde The Glacier cartoon for Jan. 17, 2019