Category Archives: Column

I GREW UP A HOMOPHOBE. It’s not easy to say, but that doesn’t make it any less true. It wasn’t so much that I hated gay people; it’s that “gay” was an abstract conc...

THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY plans to prohibit the recreational use of cannabis on campus. This, despite the failure of prohibition to deter use for the last 95 years in Canada. Cannabis is not harmless...

YOU KNOW I LIKE ELECTION SIGNS but sometimes I feel I'm the only one who does. I view them as part of election-campaign excitement; others think they're visual pollution, a blight on the landscape and...

KAMLOOPS - I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT that we not allow the incident in the parking lot of the Kamloops RCMP detachment to pass unremarked upon. In case you missed the news report Tuesday, the city experi...

A NEW NATIONAL HOLIDAY around the issue of reconciliation is a good idea if it's done right. If it's just going to be about the sad legacies of residential schools, never mind. And - let's speak frank...

IT LOOKS LIKE SILLY SEASON is officially underway as one city councillor feels the Kamloops Official Community Plan (OCP) would better serve the public if called the ‘Official Community Guidelin...

KAMLOOPS - OVERLANDERS DAY was supposed to draw thousands to McDonald Park on Sunday but it was cancelled at the last moment due to wildfire smoke. It's a bummer but it was the responsible thing to do...

KAMLOOPS - Last week, during a drive from Vancouver, we took a short break in Hope. It was almost 10 o'clock at night and the fire near Agassiz was raging, mountain aglow and the plume above it a thre...

IT’S IMPORTANT FOR ELECTED PEOPLE to be accessible. It needs to be simple and universally possible to contact your representative - whether on a municipal, provincial or federal level - in order...

IT'S COMMON SPECULATION that at least 30 people will put their names forward for councillor positions plus several for mayor in the upcoming Kamloops civic election. Already, the numbers are growing a...