Category Archives: Column
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
Good news and bad news about women in civic politics
LOOKING AT THE RESULTS of last weekend's civic election, it might seem that despite all the efforts to get more women involved in local politics, nothing has changed. Two key members of the current co...
Oct 23, 2018
Good news and bad news about women in civic politics
LOOKING AT THE RESULTS of last weekend's civic election, it might seem that despite all the efforts to get more women involved in local politics, nothing has changed. Two key members of the current co...
Oct 23, 2018
Lack of experience on council presents challenges
KAMLOOPS - KAMLOOPS VOTERS were cautious Saturday, electing a steady-as-she-goes City council they trust will be good day-to-day stewards of their interests. But the fine tuning results in a council w...
Oct 22, 2018
Lack of experience on council presents challenges
KAMLOOPS - KAMLOOPS VOTERS were cautious Saturday, electing a steady-as-she-goes City council they trust will be good day-to-day stewards of their interests. But the fine tuning results in a council w...
Oct 22, 2018
Hope can reign supreme even under dire circumstances
KAMLOOPS - I started writing this column before Saturday. It was to be about the environmental mess we're in, according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC) ...
Oct 22, 2018
Hope can reign supreme even under dire circumstances
KAMLOOPS - I started writing this column before Saturday. It was to be about the environmental mess we're in, according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC) ...
Oct 22, 2018
There isn't a person in Kamloops who could defeat Ken Christian in an election
THE CONCLUSION TO YESTERDAY’S MAYORAL ELECTION in Kamloops was as foregone as the conclusion to the movie Titanic. Ken Christian was going to defeat William Turnbull, and it was not going to be ...
Oct 21, 2018
There isn't a person in Kamloops who could defeat Ken Christian in an election
THE CONCLUSION TO YESTERDAY’S MAYORAL ELECTION in Kamloops was as foregone as the conclusion to the movie Titanic. Ken Christian was going to defeat William Turnbull, and it was not going to be ...
Oct 21, 2018
There’s no law that says politicians have to listen
DOES FREEDOM OF SPEECH include the right not to listen? If we refuse to listen to someone, are we violating their right to be heard? And what if we want to speak, but don't want certain people to hear...
Oct 20, 2018
