Category Archives: Column
Giving thanks in Kamloops, every day
The first morning of October was cold and drizzly and the tall withered grass was wet and just as cold. Dog and I went on our daily hike, heading up the steep trail as fast as we could to keep warm. B...
Oct 08, 2018
Thanksgiving and Breast Cancer: When Gratitude is Hard
KAMLOOPS - *recommended listening while you read: Fall On Me – Andrea and Matteo Bocelli For a variety of reasons, entering into Thanksgiving with a peaceful, open and grateful heart has taken s...
Oct 07, 2018
Thanksgiving and Breast Cancer: When Gratitude is Hard
KAMLOOPS - *recommended listening while you read: Fall On Me – Andrea and Matteo Bocelli For a variety of reasons, entering into Thanksgiving with a peaceful, open and grateful heart has taken s...
Oct 07, 2018
Don’t be fooled by the hocus pocus of pro rep math
THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS wrong with the referendum on proportional representation, it would take as long to cover it all as it would to explain the convoluted and foggy alternatives on the ballot. So ...
Oct 06, 2018
Don’t be fooled by the hocus pocus of pro rep math
THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS wrong with the referendum on proportional representation, it would take as long to cover it all as it would to explain the convoluted and foggy alternatives on the ballot. So ...
Oct 06, 2018
A couple of positive outcomes to the political spectrum assignment controversy
LOST IN THE UPROAR over the class assignment on the political spectrum given by the teacher at Valleyview Secondary were a couple of real positives. The Grade 10 socials class was discussing what char...
Oct 05, 2018
A couple of positive outcomes to the political spectrum assignment controversy
LOST IN THE UPROAR over the class assignment on the political spectrum given by the teacher at Valleyview Secondary were a couple of real positives. The Grade 10 socials class was discussing what char...
Oct 05, 2018
What about a Kamloops arts and convention centre?
THOSE WHO IGNORE HISTORY are doomed to repeat it. How many times have we heard that? It came to mind when I heard Tourism Kamloops CEO Beverley DeSantis suggest Kamloops should look at building a conv...
Oct 04, 2018
Three profiles of opioid users
THE FISHBOWL LIVES OF DRUG USERS on the streets of downtown East Vancouver provides an easy, but distorted, window to drug use. That picture is as distorted now as it was 139 years ago when B.C.'s sec...
Oct 04, 2018
What about a Kamloops arts and convention centre?
THOSE WHO IGNORE HISTORY are doomed to repeat it. How many times have we heard that? It came to mind when I heard Tourism Kamloops CEO Beverley DeSantis suggest Kamloops should look at building a conv...
Oct 04, 2018
