Category Archives: Column

REFRACTION’S KATIE NEUSTAETER revisits her Life after Concussion column with some further thoughts.

THE RELATIONSHIP between the City of Kamloops and the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc is often heralded as the way things should work between municipal and First Nations governments. It's somewhat unique becau...

A FEW WEEKS AGO, I READ a book that could not have a more sobering title: A Deadly Wandering - A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention, by Matt Richtel (William Morrow/Harper Collins ...

KAMLOOPS - DOES RESPECTING PEOPLE mean we also have to respect their religious beliefs? That important question has been raised on local social media after the slaughter of 50 Muslims by a white supre...

"DREAMS DON’T WORK UNLESS YOU DO." "You get out what you put in." "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard." Those are just as few of the things I tell my kids when they're struggli...

AS SURELY AS IF by referendum in every country, in every city and every house on every street and country road, the world made a decision on Friday. It was the right decision. We voted as a global com...

THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE MOSQUE ATTACKS in New Zealand is in its early stages, but we do know a few things about what happened. Dozens of people were killed at two mosques attending Friday services....

A SCANDAL IN BRITAIN brought down the Conservative government in 1963 when it was revealed that model and nightclub dancer Christine Keeler had slept with British and Russian officials. Revelations of...

I MAY BE GETTING AHEAD of myself on this one but I have an early request for the new performing arts centre - if it ever gets off the ground, of course. It's about buttocks. Frankly, the seating at bo...

KAMLOOPS - WE HUMANS ARE VERY CREATIVE in coming up with new ways to wage war on the other species that inhabit planet Earth alongside us. There's an event in Williams Lake called a "wolf whacking con...