Category Archives: Column
Stan's Last Ride — A legend retires
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 ...
Oct 28, 2018
Maybe Kamloops should leave arts and culture to Vernon
VERNON HAS SHOWN Kamloops how it's done. Again. Last Saturday, Vernon residents voted to build themselves a $40-million multi-purpose cultural facility downtown. Of that, $25 million will be borrowed,...
Oct 27, 2018
Maybe Kamloops should leave arts and culture to Vernon
VERNON HAS SHOWN Kamloops how it's done. Again. Last Saturday, Vernon residents voted to build themselves a $40-million multi-purpose cultural facility downtown. Of that, $25 million will be borrowed,...
Oct 27, 2018
Downtown hit-and-run was sickly familiar
THE HIT-AND-RUN INCIDENT ON SEYMOUR STREET last Saturday was all too familiar, and it should be disturbing to all of us that no one has come forward to take responsibility yet. Unfortunately, though, ...
Oct 26, 2018
Downtown hit-and-run was sickly familiar
THE HIT-AND-RUN INCIDENT ON SEYMOUR STREET last Saturday was all too familiar, and it should be disturbing to all of us that no one has come forward to take responsibility yet. Unfortunately, though, ...
Oct 26, 2018
Canadians support carbon pricing
CANADIANS, INCLUDING BUSINESS GROUPS, support Trudeau's proposed carbon-pricing plan announced Tuesday. So why are some politicians opposed? The short answer is politics, although games are being play...
Oct 25, 2018
We can’t let everybody else decide the referendum
OUR REFERENDUM BALLOTS are in the mail, and God and Canada Post willing, they should arrive in our mailboxes any day if they haven't already. The voting packages are due in Kamloops now, and in variou...
Oct 25, 2018
Canadians support carbon pricing
CANADIANS, INCLUDING BUSINESS GROUPS, support Trudeau's proposed carbon-pricing plan announced Tuesday. So why are some politicians opposed? The short answer is politics, although games are being play...
Oct 25, 2018
We can’t let everybody else decide the referendum
OUR REFERENDUM BALLOTS are in the mail, and God and Canada Post willing, they should arrive in our mailboxes any day if they haven't already. The voting packages are due in Kamloops now, and in variou...
Oct 25, 2018
There’s gotta be a better way to break a tie vote for mayor
KAMLOOPS - THERE WERE A LOT OF close votes in last Saturday's civic election but none so close as the race for mayor in Peachland, our Okanagan neighbor to the south. At the end of counting on electio...
Oct 24, 2018
