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Buy an EV like your wallet depends on it

This is a letter to all my driving friends. There is one good thing that is actively saving me money every single day, my electric car.

Cathedral Grove is supposed to be a Class A park

(Sent to AVNews – April 22 Edition – Online Article April 26) Dear Editor, What is the purpose of a Class A Provincial Park like Cathedral Grove (MacMillan Park)? Is it to turn trees into tall lifeless poles? According to BCParks in a Class A park: “no natural resource may be granted, sold, removed, destroyed, …

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140 years ago we were connected

Sir Donald Smith drives the last spike at Craigellachie from the wikipedia page. Last Spike of the CPR - Craigellachie, British Columbia, Canada. Donald Alexander Smith driving the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Also in the photo are (generally left to right) Albert Bowman Rogers (Surveyor), Michael Haney (Contractor), William Cornelius Van Horne (CPR Manager), Sir Sandford Fleming, Edward Mallandaine (teenager), Henry Cambie (engineer), John Egan (General Superintendent), Sam Steele (NorthWest Mounted Police), James Ross (engineer). The man at the rear of the photo, just right of centre, with a white cowboy hat and moustache, is reputed to be Tom Wilson, guide & outfitter & the first white man to see Lake Louise.

(This Letter was sent to the Times Colonist on November 7 2025 – It was published on November 11, 2025) Dear Editor, 140 years ago today (November 7th, 2025) the last spike was driven near Revelstoke BC, completing what is now known as the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway. It took just 4 years for …

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