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The pair will replace Patti Best and Harvey Naglie on Nov. 1

The awards honor and celebrate seven people, businesses, organizations or groups that made a big impact in the community in 2020. Recipients this year include: Terry Kalil, Greta Guck and the entire Detroit Lakes Public Library team, SJE, La Barista, Kristin Bausman, Amy Erickson and Bruce Imholte.

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Jim Sinclair, ages ago, told us that the moment the Obama administration threatened the Swiss with SWIFT expulsion over opening up its vaunted banking privacy rules was the equivalent of a nuclear first strike. Previous to this threat SWIFT was as unknown to most people as the most arcane aspects of particle physics. It was the means by which money magically moved around the world. Without it modern finance and trade couldn’t exist and politicization of it was anathema because of that. SWIFT is just code. It’s just a communications protocol. Code is easy to write. It can be copied, alter...

The harmonized sales tax is a “lose-lose” situation, says B.C. Federation of Labour president Jim Sinclair. He urged about 75 delegates at a federation conference in Prince George Friday to vote against the HST. “They haven’t fixed a thing, they made it worse,” Sinclair said of the government’s move to reduce the HST from 12 per cent to 10 per cent over the next three years. “If (Premier Christy Clark) drops the rate, she loses $1.8 billion out of the money we have to pay for schools and hospitals,” he said, echoing comments Clark made when running for the Liberal leadership a...