Re: November 23, Osoyoos remains true to Wells Congratulations to Osoyoos Director of Corporate Services and Returning Officer, Janette Van Vianen, and her staff for a wonderfully well-organized and well-run civic election. It’s too bad only about 40 per cent of the electorate took the few minutes required to exercise their democratic right to vote for [...] [...more]
Open letter to Osoyoos Council Re: Osoyoos Lake and drinking water infrastructure Dear Mayor and Counsellors of the Town of Osoyoos I wish to express my deep concerns about the major infrastructure of our town. We are able to live without parks, paving of roads and similar attributes of our life here, but we are unable to live [...] [...more]
The province and the BCTF are squaring off over cost increases that seem to have little to do with good governance or children. For the BC Liberal party they are being slowly backed into a corner mostly of their own making. Holding themselves as the economically responsible party, they have a fairly dismal record of [...] [...more]
You may remember a decade ago when the NDP government ran the very unpopular photo radar program. The essential argument for the campaign was speed kills. The argument against the program was that it was a cash grab. The fact is that most motorists speed. There may be a few angels out there who never break [...] [...more]
Museum facility inching forward – Osoyoos Times, November 23 In this move are some apparent peculiarities the citizen may want to consider. For instance, why was the Home Building Centre purchased for this purpose? Were other options considered? The town already owns land upon which to erect a new building, which definitely will costs less than [...] [...more]
From where I sit – part of the mountain community, but not part of Regal Ridge itself – initially zoning delays, plus the HST, the huge economic slowdown and the trickle down effect from cheap housing in Phoenix, etc., have all contributed to the present situation. Unfortunately, so has negative comment. However, Regal Ridge has been [...] [...more]
How does a person react when every day they hear and see some new abomination that our federal government is perpetrating against its own people? Never have I seen so many outraged people. Rarely have I seen such arrogant and mean-spirited behaviour on the part of our government. One of the first things PM Harper did after [...] [...more]
Are Canadians blind? Let’s talk job loss in this country. Tens of thousands of jobs are lost here because of the economy? Balderdash! They are lost to privatization. Businesses opting for cheap (slave labour) to third world countries. Everything I purchase is made in China, Cambodia, Taiwan… what’s next? Some hotels are already importing housekeepers [...] [...more]
We are now entering the transition phase – where your local 9-1-1 Fire service is being transferred up to Kelowna. Before we are lost in the muddle, we want to say it has been a pleasure working with the Fire Departments in the Southern Interior – Penticton, Summerland, Naramata, Kaleden, Okanagan Falls, Penticton Indian Band, [...] [...more]
You know, I see on the news these days all kinds of support and news coverage regarding these “Occupy Vancouver” protestors in Vancouver and a lot of the major cities in Canada and in United States, and I can’t help but wonder what these people do for a living when they seem to have nothing but time to [...] [...more]
