Category Archives: Column
COLLINS: Will the last month of the year be better than the first 11?
IN HIS VANCOUVER SUN COLUMN this past week, Vaughn Palmer suggests that the NDP is struggling to find its footing. So far, the party seems to be lacking fresh ideas in its initial comments about what ...
Dec 01, 2024
PETERS: Approving the access hub shelter on the North Shore helped the helpers
I HAD A DREAM THIS WEEK that I was being taken to the hospital in an ambulance. On our way, we stopped at a downtown alley.There were several ambulances already parked there, with paramedics tending t...
Nov 29, 2024
COLLINS: Strikes like that at Canada Post need to be resolved from within
THE STRATEGIES SURROUNDING STRIKES have always fascinated me. Why was this or that item the dealbreaker? Why do some of the issues seem to be so trivial and far too minor to lead to a strike? In the c...
Nov 28, 2024
COLLINS: John Rustad's big gamble
HIDEBOUND LEADER JOHN RUSTAD has made some tough calls in the few short months since his Conservative mandate became public. He destroyed Kevin Falcon's BC United Party - although the Falcon himself p...
Nov 24, 2024
PETERS: Eby could learn something from Horgan, who bridged the ideological divide between urban and rural B.C.
YOU'VE HEARD IT SAID dozens of times in the past week - the NDP could use another John Horgan.It's not that Horgan was the second coming or the perfect politician. He surely had his faults and his leg...
Nov 22, 2024
SOUND OFF: Royal Inland Hospital's emergency room uses antimicrobial copper to fight infection
TECK RESOURCES LIMITED, a Vancouver-based resource company, made a $2.5 million contribution to Royal Inland Hospital's new emergency department, which opened in Kamloops last month. This donation cov...
Nov 22, 2024
COLLINS: Scary climate words should not be trivialized
WE'VE HEARD ABOUT the "perfect storm", the "atmospheric river", and now "the cyclone bomb". These comments either tend to be poo-pooed by skeptics or used as a warning by scientists concerned with the...
Nov 21, 2024
COLLINS: The icon who is Taylor Swift
I WILL TELL YOU WITHOUT HESITATION that I am a huge Swiftie. I have followed the career of Taylor Swift since she was a young teenager going door to door trying to get a deal so her songs would get so...
Nov 17, 2024
PETERS: Business owners shouldn't be held responsible for nuisance calls
IF A PERSON IN KAMLOOPS CALLS 9-1-1 because they feel like they're having a heart attack, but it turns out to be a bad case of indigestion, they are not penalized.It could be argued that it's a waste ...
Nov 15, 2024
SOUND OFF: What is the difference between a food policy council and frontline services?
PEOPLE OFTEN MISUNDERSTAND what I do for work. When I tell people I work for the Kamloops Food Policy Council (KFPC), they ask if that's a food bank. Although frontline services like the food bank hav...
Nov 15, 2024
