Category Archives: Column

LAST MONTH on CFJC Today, Bill McQuarrie talked about what voters can expect in the upcoming election campaign. He got out his crystal ball and predicted certain topics that will be up for debate. I&#...

KAMLOOPS - Tanya Van Cuylenborg's killer went free for decades until DNA evidence led to his arrest in Washington State. The young Victoria woman's boyfriend was also killed but no one has been arrest...

KAMLOOPS - I TOOK THE ICBC DRIVER refresher test. Flunked it. "Looks like your driving knowledge is a little rusty," the computer told me. But there's one thing I do know that most other drivers in Ka...

KAMLOOPS - TUESDAY'S ANNOUNCEMENT that red-light cameras at intersections - including one in Kamloops - will now operate 24 hours a day is a good step toward bringing some sanity and civility back to ...

KAMLOOPS - The August heat has settled in and temperatures in the high 30's are the norm for the next several weeks. Summer vacations are still happening but you can already see a slight slackening of...

KAMLOOPS - THE DISAGREEMENT over veterans' licence plates is much ado about nothing. The special plates are a way of recognizing the service of current and past members of the Canadian Armed Forces. T...

KAMLOOPS -Shortly after we moved to Kamloops in August of 2012 we were told of a not-to-miss event unfolding every fall in the Adams river: the annual salmon run, peaking every four years. The 2010 ru...

KAMLOOPS - When I was little my uncle would often take my brothers and me to Blazers games – just us and bachelor Uncle Frank for a whole night – it was the BEST! (Looking back now, I real...

OUR FIRST HYDRO bills with the new tax have arrived. The Customer Crisis Fund, as it's called, cost us 10 cents in June because it was pro-rated for the month, and 25 cents in July. Now there's 35 cen...

SUMMER’S NOT OVER YET. At least this summer got off the ground, unlike last year, when the BC Interior was shrouded in smoke and thousands lived in fear that their homes would be consumed by fir...