Category Archives: Column
GINTA: The Remembrance Day files — It feels like family
KAMLOOPS - 'In Flanders fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below...' It is i...
Nov 12, 2018
NEUSTAETER: Lest we forget — my grandpa's stories
I COME FROM A LONG LINE of storytellers. For better or for worse, every person in my family has a whole catalogue of stories that are passed along throughout our lives, eventually becoming the narrati...
Nov 11, 2018
ROTHENBURGER: Tongue-twister name for new trail could be a good thing
KAMLOOPS -HAVE YOU TRIED OUT the new Xget'tem' Trail? That's the name of the multi-use paved path from Sahali to the bottom of Peterson Creek Park. It means Deep Valley in Sepwpemc. At the official op...
Nov 10, 2018
Federal government's VAC spending practices do little to honour veterans
IT’S OFTEN SAID that a person’s true priorities only come through when you look at how they spend their money. The same is true of governments. For example, the United States spends nearly...
Nov 09, 2018
Ten years after the Great Recession, nothing's changed
A DECADE LATER, the crisis that threatened to take down the global financial order seems like a bad dream. Now it's business as usual. In 2008, banking institutions creaked and groaned under the weigh...
Nov 08, 2018
Purple poppy honours animals who ‘also served’ in war
I'M GUESSING YOU HAVEN'T noticed, but I like to wear a different lapel pin every day on the Armchair Mayor. I have so many of them I expect that a year from now I won't have worn any of them twice. I ...
Nov 08, 2018
What to expect from Horgan and Wilkinson in the great debate
KAMLOOPS - THE DEBATE NOBODY EXPECTED to happen is set for Thursday night at 7 p.m. on Global and CBC TV and radio and it should be a corker. I'm actually surprised Premier John Horgan accepted Opposi...
Nov 07, 2018
Time to think about term limits for civic politicians again
KAMLOOPS - THE INAUGURAL MEETINGS of Kamloops City council and the Kamloops-Thompson School Board were held last night, with the Thompson-Nicola Regional District board set for its own inaugural on Th...
Nov 06, 2018
Let’s stop worrying and learn to love the time change
KAMLOOPS - FEELS LIKE MONDAY was a little slower to arrive than usual, doesn't it? Might be because Daylight Saving Time came to an end for another year yesterday. The world seems to be carrying on pr...
Nov 05, 2018
Let’s always remember
KAMLOOPS -My grandfather was a WWII veteran. He died when I was nine, and so did the stories that he might have been inclined to share. I have old photos of him in uniform, and I know a few of the jol...
Nov 05, 2018
