Over the Horizon Previously I wrote when expressing what I want in a candidate, “I would rather you see over the horizon than to the horizon”. Let’s look more closely. The phrase ‘temporal exhaustion’ means being mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present and having no energy left for imagining […]

THE LIGHT AT OLD GROUCHY Roiling fog banks slithered around the rocks of Old Grouchy, obscuring the cliffs one minute, then parting to let a shaft of sunlight touch the island’s one grassy knoll.  No beaches, not even rocky ones soften Old Grouchy.  Fisheries and Oceans Canada had, many decades ago, built a stone and […]

  Learning to Fly In the tree just outside our window a pair of crows built a nest. For weeks the crows brought food for the baby crows. It seemed as though it wasn’t just the parents that fed the baby crows, others joined in for the task. Eventually the young crows were able to […]

The Town of Osoyoos is pleased to announce Jared Brounstein was the successful applicant for the position of Director of Operations. He comes to the Town with many years of municipal experience ranging from large and medium to small rural communities. He has spent the last three years working in the private sector as a […]

British Columbians visiting other provinces and territories are now able to bring home liquor products for personal consumption without any restrictions or limits.Previously, there were limits on the amount of liquor British Columbians could physically bring back from other provinces for their own consumption. There were also similar restrictions from other provinces on B.C. products, […]

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