B.C.’s jobs minister recently addressed the issue of pandemic recovery in northern communities and suggested more people are working today than prior to the pandemic. What wasn’t addressed in any meaningful way is the very real impact of thousands of potential job losses in the forest sector because of government policy changes that include vast and immediate deferrals of B.C.

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Canadians are often portrayed as polite, decent, unassuming, and hard to anger. That characterization is especially apparent compared to our brash noisy neighbours to the south. It was therefore not surprising that the occupation of large sections of our national capital, and the very unneighbourly honking of horns at all hours, was met with widespread disapproval by most Canadians. Angus Reid Institute pointed out that three quarters of Canadians just wanted the protesters to go home.