Category Archives: Column
Addicts’ safety shouldn’t come ahead of general public’s
KAMLOOPS - When delegates to the annual B.C. Chamber of Commerce convention get together in Kamloops later this month, they'll have plenty of ideas on how to further the interests of business. A great...
May 02, 2018
If we want free blood, we’ll have to pay for it
KAMLOOPS - SHOULD WE BE PAID for giving our blood? The very thought of it has long been offensive to our Canadian values. Free blood is regarded as a basic human right, and the people who provide that...
May 01, 2018
Pipeline opponents and supporters should agree: fossil fuels are running out
I CRINGE with almost every conversation and social media post about the Kinder Morgan pipeline as inevitably someone, thinking they are quite witty and original, will say something like: "Well if you'...
May 01, 2018
This is tax day and here’s what we get for our money
KAMLOOPS - This is tax day, for most of us, the deadline for filing our income-tax returns. If we're lucky, we'll get a little money back from all those deductions during 2017; if not, we'll be writin...
Apr 30, 2018
The simplicity files: One seed at a time
KAMLOOPS - I am breaking the rules of local gardening. It is still April yet the patch of garden in the backyard is all dug up, ready to be seeded. I open the big bag of compost manure and spread it a...
Apr 30, 2018
Suzuki row shows risk of relying on corporate funding
SOME OF OUR FRIENDS from next door should take a pill. They're so over-wrought they're losing their focus, snapping like a blind dog without a bone. Albertans are peeved over the Trans Mountain pipeli...
Apr 28, 2018
Get that garbage out of here
NO ONE IS HAPPY that children are discovering piles of used needles in our parks and green spaces. And the principles of personal and social responsibility suggest adults, even if they are drug users,...
Apr 27, 2018
Saying the bad guys won’t change us isn’t an answer
KAMLOOPS - Little by little, we're finding out more about the killer and his victims in this week's van attack in Toronto. The victims range in age from their 20s to 80s, from a single mom to a grandm...
Apr 26, 2018
Canadians look beyond America
FOR THE FIRST TIME in decades, Canadians are more likely to hold a negative view of the U.S. than positive. According to a survey by the Environics Institute, it's the lowest ever with only 44 per cen...
Apr 26, 2018
Heritage House parking lot should be off limits to development
KAMLOOPS - Keeping an open mind is usually a good thing, but not always. Kamloops City council got a surprise yesterday when resident Ruth Madsen let the cat out of the bag during public inquiries at ...
Apr 25, 2018
