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A Closer Look is the blog of Jody Paterson, a Victoria, B.C. writer and communications strategist with a passion on the side for street issues. She writes every Friday in the Victoria Times-Colonist and posts the columns on this site.
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Voting a crap shoot at municipal electionsIn just
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Voting a crap shoot at municipal electionsIn just over a week, we'll pick the mayors and councillors who will lead B.C. communities for the next three years. It's an incredibly important job. We hire municipal councils to tend to dozens of vita...
7 views | aggregated: 1 week 3 days ago
topics: candidate, election, kamloops, mayor, planning
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Silence is golden, and frighteningly rareI look at
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Silence is golden, and frighteningly rareI look at birds differently these days than I used to, ever since getting a great pair of binoculars a couple years ago that opened my eyes to the incredible variety of birds out there. But I quickly learned t...
6 views | aggregated: 2 weeks 2 days ago
topics: kamloops, technology
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Court decision on homeless 'camping' is ticket to
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Court decision on homeless 'camping' is ticket to real changeSo now people can sleep in our city parks, but have to be gone first thing in the morning. Hope somebody at city hall is developing a Plan B, because I sure don't see that 7 a.m.-curfew stu...
10 views | aggregated: 3 weeks 2 days ago
topics: business, election, housing, kamloops, political
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With a municipal vote coming up in the Capital Reg
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With a municipal vote coming up in the Capital Region in November, here's a few questions that might help you quiz your municipal candidates as to what they plan to do about homelessness in the region if elected:CANDIDATE QUESTIONS What do you think ...
18 views | aggregated: 4 weeks 3 days ago
topics: business, candidate, crime, downtown, elected
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Text of a speech I gave at the University of Victo
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Text of a speech I gave at the University of Victoria Oct. 7 as the Harvey Stevenson Southam lecturer: Thank you so much for coming tonight, and I'd especially like to thank the Southam family, both for giving me the opportunity to speak this evening...
20 views | aggregated: 5 weeks 4 days ago
topics: activist, business, crime, downtown, environment
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Donations most welcome for Oct. 16 event for stree
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Donations most welcome for Oct. 16 event for street communityOct. 3, 2008Winter approaches, and my friends on the street are still mostly out in the cold. Our region is trying much harder than it was a year ago to do something about homelessness, but...
14 views | aggregated: 5 weeks 4 days ago
topics: kamloops, mayor
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Bad thinking all round in Battershill storySept. 2
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Bad thinking all round in Battershill storySept. 26, 2008What's done is done, so there's little point in getting too worked up over the many missteps in the Paul Battershill saga.But boy, there was some flawed thinking going on there at a whole lot o...
22 views | aggregated: 7 weeks 6 days ago
topics: business, downtown, kamloops, mayor, police-chief
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Long-ago tax return proves a dollar really does bu
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Long-ago tax return proves a dollar really does buy less nowSept. 19, 2008I've recently been reunited with my hope chest from a long-past marriage, and cracked open the lid this summer for the first time in nearly 30 years. Tucked in between th...
17 views | aggregated: 8 weeks 3 days ago
topics: forestry, housing, investment, kamloops, tax
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Deli-meat sandwiches should be no-go for elderly p
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Deli-meat sandwiches should be no-go for elderly patientsSept. 5, 2008So I've done my due diligence this week and read through several dozen news items, reports and public-health warnings about the listeriosis outbreak that's killing Canadians. I'm a...
13 views | aggregated: 10 weeks 4 days ago
topics: kamloops, sewage
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VIHA's problems go much deeper than communications
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VIHA's problems go much deeper than communications departmentAug. 29, 2008It's a poor workman who blames his tools, so let's hope the Vancouver Island Health Authority rethinks its decision to lay the blame for bad communications on its long-sufferin...
19 views | aggregated: 11 weeks 2 days ago
topics: kamloops, political
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Gassy Jack
"Gassy Jack" by The Evaporators (SOCAN). Video directed by Jason Margolis from the CD/LP &...
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When Jesse Was Born
Explores the turbulent, sometimes painful, and often humorous lives of one blue-collar family as the...
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A Piece of Glass
With the 2010 Olympics rapidly approaching, many people are concerned about the issue of homelessnes...
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active: 5 hours 15 min ago |
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