Category Archives: Column

KAMLOOPS - I ATTENDED THE PRESENTATION on Wednesday night by Dr. Denis Pilon of York University on the upcoming referendum on changes to the B.C. electoral system. He's a very good speaker and explain...

MEN HAVEN’T ALWAYS avoided open displays of affection for each other. Rachel Giese author of Boys: What It Means To Become A Man says: "Our squeamishness about male friendship is a historical an...

SEVEN GREENPEACE PROTESTERS were removed from Vancouver's Ironworkers Memorial Bridge - also known as the Second Narrows - on Wednesday afternoon after hanging from it since early Tuesday. According t...

KAMLOOPS- STORIES ABOUT THE DISCOVERY of racist anti-indigenous graffiti spray-painted on a sign at Lac du Bois have been in local media for the past few days. Then came the obscenity-laced graffiti o...

I'M DISAPPOINTED THAT POLICE won't be walking in this year's Kamloops Pride Parade. The parade reflects the progress made in recognizing the LGBTQ community as an integral part of Kamloops. It began w...

BEFORE WRITING this week's column, I asked the mayor along with our eight city councillors if they could provide some perspective on a rather sensitive and fractious issue the city faces. Mayor Christ...

KAMLOOPS - If you've been following the local news you know by now that councillor Tina Lange will no longer be seeking a seat in the council in the next elections. It came as a surprise, and it has c...

KAMLOOPS - POLITICIANS ARE THE least respected and most maligned people in the country. We love to disparage them but, cripes, can't we have the decency to wish them well when they retire? Tina Lange ...

KAMLOOPS - Dear: Canada, I've always loved you, but I must confess that there have been times that I've lusted after other lands. I'm not going to lie; it bothers me that your dollar is often weak eve...

IT'S IMPOSSIBLE to talk about Canada Day this year without discussing our current relationship with the elephant to the south. Borrowing from the words of Pierre Trudeau, the beast is twitching and gr...