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Rob Shaw is the CHEK News legislative correspondent and political columnist/commentator for CBC, Glacier Media, Northern Beat and Political Capital. He is co-author of A Matter of Confidence.

Provincial aid package for Okanagan growers too little, too late

Column / Op-Ed

Written By Rob Shaw
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If the BC NDP’s new aid package for apple farmers was an actual apple, it’d be a bruised, shrivelled-up, tiny red Spartan, full of holes and hanging limply off the…

Fruit farmers hang hope on last-ditch meeting with premier’s staff

Column / Op-Ed

Written By Rob Shaw
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“Without immediate assistance, there will be no tree fruit industry to save.” –BC Tree Fruits Association It wasn’t even six months ago that the BC Tree Fruits cooperative ushered local…

Okanagan growers lose farm-to-table lifeline with tree fruit coop closure

Column / Op-Ed

Written By Rob Shaw
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“Every grower is going to be impacted by this. The market is going to completely change.” ––Deep Brar When BC United leader Kevin Falcon sat down with tree fruit farmers…

Fort Nelson man passes buck to premiers for half a century

Column / Op-Ed

Written By Rob Shaw
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Earl Brown owns a dollar bill that is worth far more than one dollar. As a bit of British Columbia history it is, in fact, priceless. On the back, crowded…