Category Archives: Column

The video-streaming giant Netflix recently told a panel reviewing Canada's Broadcast Act that "market forces" should determine the programs that Canadians watch, not pooled resources like the Canadian...

MORE THAN $163 MILLION in outstanding student-loan payments were written off this week by the federal government. The money is owed by more than 31,000 students who can't or won't repay the money. It'...

KAMLOOPS - A QUESTION about all those store robberies - why is the quality of surveillance videos so poor? There have been four robberies at downtown stores this month, at least three of which have be...

POLITICIANS ARE so used to acting like politicians they can't stop doing it no matter what. In the wake of the B.C. Legislature spending scandal, Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson has called for a polit...

HERE’S SOME SOBERING NEWS from a recent article in The Globe and Mail: 46 per cent of Canadians are within $200 of financial insolvency at each month-end. Blame it on higher interest rates, but ...

KAMLOOPS - LOOKS VERY MUCH like McArthur Island will be getting a combined nature park and disc golf course. That's the strong recommendation going to Kamloops City council this week from the Parks an...

I’M NOT AT ALL ANTI-VIDEO GAMES. While I may not be pro-star anything in the gaming world, I've still logged my fair share of time with a controller in my hand and have spent many all-nighters e...

WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME obsessing over downtown parking rates but that's only half the issue. The other half is parking spaces and how to find them. We'll all agree that we have a desperate shortage of...

CAN’T WE HAVE A NICE, PEACEFUL DRUG TRADE? I guess not. When you have an economic sector that’s completely unregulated, the business owners will regulate it themselves. And when violence i...

CHINA IS TAKING A PAGE out of the American playbook in its massive global investment called the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). “Belt,” is short for the Silk Road Economic Belt and refers ...