Category Archives: Column
Walsh right to question city plan on former Thrupp Manor property
DENIS WALSH COULD BE generously described as a wild card around the Kamloops council table. He often appears not to be on the same page as his council colleagues, and occasionally not even in the same...
Aug 17, 2018
Return of the gun registry won't happen any time soon
WOULD POLICE OFFICERS Robb Costello and Sara Burns be alive today if Canada still had a long-gun registry? They're the two officers who were killed along with civilians Bobbie Lee Wright and Donnie Ro...
Aug 16, 2018
Let's finish the job and implement pharmacare
MEDICARE IS A GOOD IDEA but incomplete without pharmacare. Let's finish what we started in the 1960s. The plan was always to finish our health care system but realization of that dream got lost in per...
Aug 16, 2018
Note to Interior Health – the needle situation is unacceptable
KAMLOOPS - LISTENING TO INTERIOR HEALTH representatives at Tuesday's City council meeting, I waited for signs that when it comes to the growing problem of dirty needles, they get it. I'm still waiting...
Aug 15, 2018
Integrity - a precious and rare commodity these days
KAMLOOPS - It was the summer of 2006. We lived on the coast and were in the market for a car. The online ad described exactly what we had in mind: suitable family car, not too big, not too old. The pr...
Aug 14, 2018
City councillor: how long is too long?
BOB DYLAN DROPPED BY this morning to give me a hand writing today's column. Okay, okay, maybe dropped by is a bit of an exaggeration but as I began writing, I did have his music playing in the backgro...
Aug 14, 2018
What we learned from the Fourth Avenue experiment
NOW THAT THE EXPERIMENT with the Fourth Avenue "pedestrian plaza" is finished, what did you think? Did you go there? Did you sit at a table, have something to drink or eat, chat, relax? I'll bet you d...
Aug 14, 2018
Sir John A. is our imperfect hero; leave him alone
KAMLOOPS - I'M NOT A RELIGIOUS person but there's some pretty good advice in the Bible. For example, "Let he or she who is without sin cast the first stone." I know those aren't the exact words but th...
Aug 13, 2018
The R-Word
KAMLOOPS - I think that most of us can agree that political correctness has gone too far. It's becoming difficult to have a conversation without worrying that something you say, despite context or int...
Aug 12, 2018
How about we tell drop-in politicians to stay home?
AS LONG AS WE'RE TALKING about electoral reform, how about we do something about drop-in politicians? Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has announced he'll run in a by-election in the Burnaby South rid...
Aug 11, 2018
