Category Archives: Column

HATE IS CHEAP AND EASY. (suggested listening while you read: ‘Imagine’ by John Lennon) It's a shortcut through life that only leads to death; whereas love is a costly, long and difficult r...

POLITICIANS DON'T CRY, do they? Well, yes they do. It was quite the tear fest during the final meeting of the outgoing Kamloops City council this week. I don't recall seeing anything like it before - ...

WE’RE REALLY NOT ALL THAT DIFFERENT across this city. Kamloops This Week printed a helpful little breakdown this week that showed how different neighbourhoods voted in last month’s municip...

THE ANNUAL DEER SLAUGHTER is underway. I don't mean the guns of autumn. I'm talking about the carnage on our rural roads. This is a highly active season for deer as they come down off the mountains in...

The Romani people of Canada have been met with both fascination and suspicion. For more than a century, Canadians have been fascinated by the colourful bands of "Gypsies" that roamed the country. Ther...

KAMLOOPS - WHAT SAD TIMES we live in when flying flags and hanging banners becomes a Charter of Rights and Freedoms issue. Without a word of discussion, it was announced at Tuesday's Kamloops City cou...

HERE'S SOMETHING that really bugs me about all the rhetoric around the future of the planet. How often do we hear the climate-change deniers and pro-oil types say smugly, "Oh, sure, so-and-so flew in ...

KAMLOOPS - Once again, I toss my midweek-written column. I had started writing about the troublesome aspect of our present-day life, which is the excess we have created. Put in the context of the grow...

IS KAMLOOPS SETTING itself up for a new graffiti war? Looks like a retaining wall between Seymour Street West and Victoria Street West is going to be turned into a so-called "free wall." It will be av...

I WAS BORN A NEWS JUNKIE with an innate love for radio and TV. (suggested listening while you read: ‘The Ascent of Stan’ by Ben Folds) Growing up it wasn't unusual to hear different local ...