Category Archives: Column
PETERS: 'Spend now versus spend later' is a debate worth having
KAMLOOPS COUNCIL faced the age-old conundrum this week - pay now or pay later?Council was debating a suite of proposals from staff to knock down the projected tax increase from north of 9 per cent to ...
Apr 04, 2025
COLLINS: Are you kidding me?
I'M TOTALLY IN SHOCK over how easily Prime Minister Mark Carney got bowled over by President Trump. Since the president put his tariffs in place, Canadians have risen in anger against the roughshod an...
Apr 03, 2025
SOUND OFF: Improving flood resilience in Merritt
IN NOVEMBER 2021, British Columbians watched as heavy rainfall caused catastrophic flooding in southern B.C.The damage to homes, businesses and infrastructure made the floods one of the most disastrou...
Apr 02, 2025
COLLINS: Sometimes, we get it right
I HAVE CRITICIZED GOVERNMENTS on the haphazard way we've grabbed available land to put up affordable housing to meet the province's demands. That there is a demand for such housing is pretty obvious. ...
Mar 30, 2025
PETERS: It's a single-issue election, just like those during wartime
IT'S ELECTION SEASON IN CANADA - and mercifully, it will be a short one.That's fine, because there is only one ballot question that really bears asking this time around.In 2021, the election was, in p...
Mar 28, 2025
COLLINS: Let's call a spade a spade
MOST PEOPLE ARE CAUTIOUS in trying to pinpoint Donald Trump's leadership style. Is he a fascist, a dictator, an autocrat, a narcissist, or a king? The Oxford English Dictionary - remember that Merriam...
Mar 27, 2025
SOUND OFF: More families benefiting from child care investments in B.C.
FAMILIES IN B.C. DESERVE A BREAK. With the economic uncertainty of Trump's unjustified tariffs coming on top of rising global inflation, it's getting harder to get by. That's why the provincial govern...
Mar 26, 2025
COLLINS: Who’s Your Choice?
MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL, who is the fairest one of all? Is it the quick-to-place-blame Pierre, or the man who walks out of the Liberal fire to make the party rise from the ashes? These questions wi...
Mar 23, 2025
PETERS: Eby's Bill 7 fights Trump with more Trump
DESPERATE TIMES call for desperate measures.That's the logic David Eby is using to justify an alarming proposed law that would allow the premier to bypass the legislative assembly and, thus, democracy...
Mar 21, 2025
COLLINS: Sometimes we realize we've made a huge blunder when it's too late to change it
NOTE TO MARK CARNEY: I know you are starting your term with rose-coloured glasses, but you will never forge a strong and lasting relationship with Donald Trump. The man seems too untrustworthy. You co...
Mar 20, 2025
