Category Archives: Column

KAMLOOPS - THE TRUTH WILL PREVAIL when former justice minister and attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould testifies before the parliamentary justice committee this week. After which, the mystery will b...

RECENTLY A FRIEND IN THE MEDICAL FIELD was telling me about how common it has become for women - and particularly very young women - to have surgeries and cosmetic procedures in order to live up to th...

CLERK OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL Michael Wernick said Thursday what everybody else has been thinking but hasn't wanted to say. "I'm worried that somebody is going to be shot in this country this year during...

ALMOST EXACTLY A MONTH AGO, we asked in this space why we can’t have a nice, peaceful drug trade. This was just a few days after a double homicide RCMP told us was related to the drug subculture...

THE ROBIN HOOD CO-OP was started by a group of artists at the University of Aalto outside Helsinki in Finland. It's a hedge fund like no other, formed as a piece of "economic performance art". Problem...

FOR CLOSE TO THREE DECADES, Kamloops has enjoyed a Sister City relationship with Uji, a city near Kyoto in Japan. Civic delegations have alternated biennial visits with each other. Each delegation pay...

KAMLOOPS - THE B.C. BUDGET released yesterday totally failed in some areas, didn't go far enough in others. Etc., etc. - that's always the response from critics of the government. The general theme of...

HERE’S THE THING: I never envisioned that students and teachers at a Kamloops school could be the target of a deadly plot. When the explanatory email came from the school district, I read it twi...

KAMLOOPS - WESTERN CANADA THEATRE is trying to put the best possible face on the shutdown of Sagebrush Theatre for roof repairs, characterizing the massive reshuffling of productions to other venues a...

A significant police incident played out in my neighbourhood on Thursday morning of this week at a home within a 5 minute walk of our elementary school and in the back yards of dozens of families (One...