Navel Gazing

Final Thought: Avoiding extremes. Again.

There seems to be two reactions to the whole coronavirus thing. The first is sheer panic, the second is to make fun of the...

Final Thought: Just my facts, ma’am

I was too young to catch the original airing of Dragnet on TV in the 1950s, or even the revival in the late 1960s. But by...

Final Thought: Life, the Universe, and Everything

At the start of Douglas Adams’ classic Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent (Arther Philip Dent) wakes up with a hangover and a...

Final Thought: Thanks for the meme-ories

A few weeks ago now, the whole Trudeau-blackface issue came to the fore.  Shortly after, pictures of Stephen Harper emerged, wearing an indigenous headdress and...

Final Thought: whither the weather

Last week, the fine folks from NorthTech windows and doors came and replaced all the windows and two of the three doors in our...

Final Thought: An election wish for you

TrentFor the last few editorials, I’ve been playing around with ideas of politics, civility and psychology. But time is about to run out. Before the...

Why RidgeLines?

I've been asked by, well, nobody yet. But I bet some of you are wondering: why Tumbler RidgeLines? The name has multiple meanings. Of...

It Lives!

After nearly two years without a local newspaper, Tumbler Ridge is back in the high life, with the birth of Tumbler RidgeLines. The new news...

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