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Governments struggle to get it right on social issuesYou learn things over the course of a journalism career. A lot of it just flies right out of your head a month or two later. But some sticks. I wouldn't say it gives you wisdom, exactly, but you do...

topics: crime, economy, elected, election, kamloops

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Tips for getting noticed when you're goneI heard a very amusing talk on death a while ago, given by Globe obituary writer Sandra Martin. Among other things, she discussed how she picked the people she wrote about.Would she pick you if you died tomorr...

topics: business, kamloops

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Change comes, but never easilyPlus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose, as French novelist Alphonse Karr so aptly noted a long, long time ago. The more things change, the more they stay the same.A career in journalism really brings that home. I thin...

topics: erosion, kamloops, sewage

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NDP: Please don't leave us with no one who gives a damnWith all due respect to a woman who I personally like, there's a burning question I need to get off my chest: Where the heck are Carole James and the NDP?I get that a party has to change with the...

topics: business, economy, elected, election, health-care

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Inside the B.C. 2010 budget lockupFor those of you who have never been in a provincial budget lockup, this is how it is: You spend six hours flipping through page after page of financial information, scribbling asterisks in the margins here and there...

topics: kamloops, liberals, politics