Category Archives: Column
SOUND OFF: Using digital security solutions to help Kamloops business owners deter thieves
SMALL BUSINESSES ACROSS B.C. were struck by a 27 per cent increase in crime in 2024 - which surpasses the national average increase of 21 per cent and is the highest increase out of all provinces. Tha...
Jan 15, 2025
COLLINS: Can we stand four more years of The Donald? Lord, give me strength
I'VE BEEN DUPED the last few years by the propaganda machine. I'll admit it took me a long time to see that the Vladimir Putins, the Xi Jinpings and even the Kim Jong Uns of the world have not been th...
Jan 12, 2025
PETERS: You know what? Maybe the U.S. annexing Canada isn't such a bad idea after all
JUSTIN TRUDEAU did a couple of very smart things this week.First, he announced his resignation - which is Canadian custom for a prime minister when our World Junior hockey team loses so embarrassingly...
Jan 10, 2025
COLLINS: Premier Eby is still out of touch with the people
THE NDP BARELY MADE IT to the winners' circle in last fall's election. The electorate expressed their displeasure with the government, with the 'too much talk, no action' style of government and the l...
Jan 09, 2025
COLLINS: Jimmy Carter was one of a kind
I DOUBT WE WILL EVER SEE another President like Jimmy Carter. If you look at President Carter and contrast him with President-elect Donald Trump, you can see why. Jimmy Carter cared about helping peop...
Jan 05, 2025
COLLINS: Just try to be a little better each day
AFTER WHAT WE'VE BEEN THROUGH the past couple of years, it's easy to just throw your hands into the air and give up. And where would that lead us? Further down the road to a society that allows itself...
Jan 02, 2025
SOUND OFF: Greater access to treatment can improve women's experience of menopause
Over 90 per cent of midlife women in British Columbia experience at least one significant physical symptom of menopause and those with more were also more likely to live with mental health conditions ...
Jan 01, 2025
COLLINS: 2024 — a year to remember. Or forget
WHEN I LOOK BACK UPON 2024, I cannot think of a year that was quite as crazy as this, from one end to the other. City council was always in the news - sometimes getting kudos, sometimes dodging arrows...
Dec 26, 2024
COLLINS: We need more money trees at Christmas
Here's our dilemma, folks. We're trying desperately to stay afloat. Many can't afford Christmas dinner, a solitary gift under the tree, and still afford to pay the rent and the monthly heat and electr...
Dec 22, 2024
PETERS: Term limits for prime ministers? Seems like a good idea now
THERE IS SPECULATION from south of the border that one of the first things Donald Trump will do when he takes office is try to repeal the 22nd Amendment to the United States constitution.That's the co...
Dec 20, 2024
