Category Archives: Column

KAMLOOPS - IF YOU WERE TO VISIT the cancer clinic at Royal Inland Hospital you'd see several patients sitting in the outer room, perhaps having a cookie or reading while they wait.The clinic receives ...

IT SOUNDS A BIT like an April Fool's joke. CP will add another track through the downtown. Right. Because of course we need more train traffic through the downtown and let's not even talk about trains...

AS WE SPEAK, I'm on Deck 4 of the MV Coastal Renaissance between Vancouver Island and the Mainland, her 21,000-horsepower diesel engines powering us across the strait at 23 knots. Having scored a spac...

IT SEEMS STRANGE to already be looking back at the provincial election campaign, but really there are two weeks left - and one week before advanced voting begins.For Andrew Wilkinson, it's been about ...

A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO I drove to Inks Lake for the first time, expecting to have a pleasant picnic lunch by the lake. It's a lovely drive, only one hour south of Kamloops on Lac Le Jeune Road.What I f...

KAMLOOPS - I WAS RECENTLY ASKED for my opinion on whether or not CFJC Today should publish an obituary as it was submitted, acknowledging that a man took his own life.My answer was that it should. If ...

KAMLOOPS - THE KAMLOOPS-THOMPSON school board's view of what should be discussed in secret continues to confound me.To the board's credit, it releases minutes of its in-camera meetings in a timely man...

KAMLOOPS - IT WAS PROBABLY INEVITABLE - and it's certainly appropriate - that Car 40 should come up as a local election issue.What's missing, though, is a plan for comprehensive provincial coverage of...

I HAVE TWO REUSABLE MASKS, both made in Kamloops by small business owners. One has a metal nose wire, and the other doesn't. They are both great to use, and I do so, but I favour the first a bit more ...

KAMLOOPS - IT'S VERY TEMPTING to let our small selves gloat over the predicament of President Donald Trump.The man who has downplayed - even ridiculed, at times - concerns over the pandemic since it b...