Category Archives: Column

KAMLOOPS - CIVIC POLITICS is not a nine-to-five job either for elected representatives or for the people who work for them. They know that, but they struggled with it this week. In Part 2 of the Agend...

HERE AT TWO AND OUT, we’re all about saying thank-you to those who help out during devastating wildfires. We do it with some kind words and, if the opportunity presents itself, a firm handshake ...

I CAN'T THINK of a worse place to spend a few million dollars worth of City taxpayers' money than building a pedestrian overpass across Summit Drive from Upper College Heights to Thompson Rivers Unive...

I SAT DOWN WITH HELEN CLARK, Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008, to talk about her country's experience with electoral reform. She was in Kamloops on June 21 at a reception held at a loca...

KAMLOOPS - IT'S TRUE THE WORLD is more complicated than it used to be but that's because we make it that way. In the old days, a community group would ask for its flag to be hoisted on the pole outsid...

"HEY LADY, did your white husband meet you online?" A random and unprovoked question directed towards a family member of mine living in Alberta. She's Canadian, has been living here for more than two ...

BY ALL ACCOUNTS, things are getting worse instead of better in the fight to clean up dirty needles in Kamloops. While back allies are a favourite place for dropping used needles, they also show up at ...

KAMLOOPS - IT'S A QUESTION often asked by taxpayers but not nearly often enough by politicians - who's in charge, the people we elect or the people they hire? City Hall staff will come back to Kamloop...

KAMLOOPS - On Thursday, I was sure my column was to focus on the increased frequency of road accidents, some of which are likely due to distracted driving. A cyclist critically injured in a hit-and-ru...

OVER THE LAST YEAR, my husband and I have felt a great desire to become more intentionally educated about First Nations people; specifically, about developing new depths of understanding about their s...