Category Archives: Column
COLLINS: Donald has it wrong — again
I HAVE BEEN RACKING MY BRAIN the past couple of weeks, trying to make sense of Donald Trump's tariff plans. Donald is trying to intimidate Mexico and Canada by threatening heavy tariffs. Ostensibly, T...
Dec 08, 2024
PETERS: Sanction Bill Sarai? Sure. Remove him from office? Ridiculous.
BILL SARAI MADE A MISTAKE. Actually, he made a few mistakes.Mistake #1: He shouldn't have secretly recorded a one-on-one conversation with Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson.The temptation for the mayor's criti...
Dec 06, 2024
COLLINS: Never again shall I watch a Kamloops council meeting
MAY I NEVER AGAIN bring myself to watch a live broadcast on the city's web page. Suffering from a short attention span, I have difficulty paying attention for any length of time. I seldom watch docume...
Dec 05, 2024
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
