Category Archives: Column
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
The new trade agreement – wines and whines
KAMLOOPS - WE CANADIANS have a lot of excellent traits. Honestly, though, we can be such whiners at times. Led by the media, we've been whining away about how bad the new trade deal is with Mexico and...
Oct 03, 2018
The new trade agreement – wines and whines
KAMLOOPS - WE CANADIANS have a lot of excellent traits. Honestly, though, we can be such whiners at times. Led by the media, we've been whining away about how bad the new trade deal is with Mexico and...
Oct 03, 2018
Healing lodge issue about public safety or politics?
THERE'S AN OLD SAYING in the news business, "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story." It's equally true in politics. The federal Conservatives have been in a lather during the past week ov...
Oct 02, 2018
Healing lodge issue about public safety or politics?
THERE'S AN OLD SAYING in the news business, "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story." It's equally true in politics. The federal Conservatives have been in a lather during the past week ov...
Oct 02, 2018
Precautionary principle may be the answer to Kavanaugh mess
KAMLOOPS - THE FBI INVESTIGATION into U.S. Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh is underway and the G-Men have till the end of the week to wrap it up. My fellow editorialist James Peters wrot...
Oct 01, 2018
Precautionary principle may be the answer to Kavanaugh mess
KAMLOOPS - THE FBI INVESTIGATION into U.S. Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh is underway and the G-Men have till the end of the week to wrap it up. My fellow editorialist James Peters wrot...
Oct 01, 2018
Why are we so opposed to saving nature?
KAMLOOPS - It is hard to try to change people's minds even when the cause is more than worthy. Not when it comes to the material part though. There are marketing wizards out there designing strategies...
Oct 01, 2018
Why are we so opposed to saving nature?
KAMLOOPS - It is hard to try to change people's minds even when the cause is more than worthy. Not when it comes to the material part though. There are marketing wizards out there designing strategies...
Oct 01, 2018
Grudgingly I admit Bill Cosby is guilty
I CAN’T TELL YOU how relieved I am to hear that a psychologist and assessment board officially branded Bill Cosby as a "sexually violent predator" who is likely to offend again if given the oppo...
Sep 30, 2018
