Category Archives: Column

YOU'VE HEARD Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry say it repeatedly: COVID-19 is in every region of B.C.She could very well have said, "There are tall buildings in every region of B.C."Technical...

ALBERTA PREMIER JASON KENNEY still dreams that his one-trick scheme of pumping oil out of the ground will save Alberta. Not so, says the energy giant BP. BP predicts that it's all downhill from here f...

KAMLOOPS - IT'S HARD NOT TO FEEL cynical after a Throne Speech. It was reasonable to expect the one delivered yesterday might be different, given the political crisis in Ottawa.But the only things rea...

KAMLOOPS - AS A VACCINE for the COVID-19 virus slowly gets closer and closer, the question arises whether it should be mandatory to be vaccinated.Estimates on when a vaccine will be available range fr...

KAMLOOPS - IF YOU LOOK UP 'HYOCRITE' in the dictionary, I'm betting you'll find John Horgan.The B.C. premier made a liar out of me by calling a provincial election yesterday. I'd given him the benefit...

CAN YOU IMAGINE TODAY'S WORLD, your world, without internet and social media? Some may not have a Facebook, Instagram or Twitter account but pretty much everyone now has an email account. To be sure, ...

KAMLOOPS - ONE OF THE GREATEST SOURCES of anxiety for civic politicians is running afoul of conflict-of-interest rules.A Vancouver City councillor named Michael Wiebe faces losing his seat. Wiebe fail...

THURSDAY CAME AND WENT and Premier John Horgan didn't call an election. That was the day he unveiled his "Stronger B.C." economic recovery plan, which was supposedly going to be the launching point, b...

B.C. POLITICS IS HIGHLY STRANGE AND UNUSUAL and never has that been more apparent than right now.We have an official opposition in a minority situation who is begging the governing party to continue g...

SOCIETY HAS A BIAS against people who weigh more than 'normal,' a bias with attached stigma called "fatphobia".Doctors are not immune. It's not that doctors are unaware of fatphobia; it's just that th...