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Fletcher: Premier bitten by politically-driven pesticide problem

Lake Country Calendar - Thursday May 24, 2012

Premier Christy Clark has a new political problem buzzing around her office.

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Taylor: When our words are just not enough

Lake Country Calendar - Wednesday May 23, 2012

Arnie Schreder was a legend throughout Northern Canada—a bush pilot, an instructor, a mentor.

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Taylor: Exploring apparent evolutionary dead ends

Lake Country Calendar - Wednesday May 16, 2012

The hummingbirds are back. Probably two pair of them, although I’m not quick enough to identify individual features.

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Fletcher: Ferry fleet sails into elitist islanders storm

Lake Country Calendar - Wednesday May 16, 2012

The B.C. government has rolled out its plan to reform BC Ferries.

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Gerding: Save your own skin: Slip on a life jacket while out boating

Lake Country Calendar - Wednesday May 16, 2012

When I look out on Okanagan Lake at people boating more often than not they are not wearing life jackets.

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Muskens: Innovation and technology require developing new job skills almost daily

Lake Country Calendar - Wednesday May 16, 2012

If we knew everything ahead of time, we would be able to predict what kind of skills and jobs are going to be required in the future.

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Taylor: Weeds are all the fault of Adam and Eve

Lake Country Calendar - Friday May 11, 2012

On the first truly warm day of spring in this part of the continent, I went out weeding my garden.

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Waters: More mayors should follow Baker on pot issue

Lake Country Calendar - Friday May 11, 2012

The call for legalization—or at least decriminalization—of marijuana in B.C. is getting louder.

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Letnick: Cruelest part of Alzheimer’s is that it has no cure

Lake Country Calendar - Friday May 11, 2012

There are few challenges more frustrating than caring for a loved one suffering from dementia.

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Fletcher: Forest jobs won’t wait for 2013

Lake Country Calendar - Wednesday May 2, 2012

Sawmill tragedies in Prince George and Burns Lake have brought overdue attention to a larger crisis.

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Taylor: Prayer does not depend on passwords

Lake Country Calendar - Wednesday May 2, 2012

Every time I wake up my computer, it asks for my password.

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Taylor: Ancient flumes that transport wisdom through time

Lake Country Calendar - Wednesday April 18, 2012

My daughter lives in a small cluster of houses in a little valley nestled into a fold in a series of arid hills cloaked in sagebrush.

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Fletcher: Environmentalism for dummies

Lake Country Calendar - Wednesday April 18, 2012

David Suzuki has resigned as a director of his namesake foundation so it won’t be the target of federal government “attacks.”

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Taylor: Finding freedom by figuring it out yourself

Lake Country Calendar - Tuesday April 10, 2012

Lessons to be learned from a dog who seems to learn from his own mistakes.

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Taylor: There comes a time of no turning back

Lake Country Calendar - Thursday March 29, 2012

There comes a moment, when you go whitewater rafting down a turbulent river, when you can’t turn back.

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Taylor: The loneliness of the non-conformist

Lake Country Calendar - Wednesday March 21, 2012

In the garden, rhubarb thrusts up through last year’s rotting leaves.

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Fletcher: BCTF is indoctrinating our kids

Lake Country Calendar - Tuesday March 6, 2012

Perhaps the most ridiculous stunt in the lead-up to this week’s teachers’ strike was pulled at an elementary school in Victoria.

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Taylor: The many faces of love, devine and otherwise

Lake Country Calendar - Wednesday March 7, 2012

In his song Taxi, the late Harry Chapin sings that he “learned about love in the back of a Dodge…”

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Taylor: We are all slaves to some sort of obsessions

Lake Country Calendar - Friday February 24, 2012

Joey the cat stands on his hind legs, raking his claws against our deck window, demanding to come in.

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Fletcher: Last stand in B.C. forests pine beetle battle

Lake Country Calendar - Friday February 24, 2012

The B.C. government’s own watchdog cut through the noise with a devastating audit of the state of Crown forests.

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