Category Archives: Column
When is one more bylaw one bylaw too many?
THERE USED TO BE a bylaw in Vancouver that prohibited selling stoves on Wednesdays. An old bylaw in Kelowna made it illegal to sunbathe in the nude in Okanagan Lake between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. In Esquim...
Jun 23, 2018
In Batchelor Heights, a job well done
IT COULD HAVE HAPPENED to almost any neighbourhood in Kamloops. Yesterday, it was Batchelor Heights. A storm cell; a lightning strike; and then suddenly, a grass fire racing toward a residential subdi...
Jun 22, 2018
Reality of kids’ detention camps needs no exaggeration
KAMLOOPS - MAYBE NOW that Donald Trump has backed off at least a little on the apprehension of children of illegal immigrants coming across the U.S.-Mexico border, some of the indignant rhetoric will ...
Jun 21, 2018
B.C. firm extracts fuel from air
IT MAY SOUND LIKE ALCHEMY but Carbon Engineering Ltd. based in Squamish captures carbon from the atmosphere and turns it back into automotive fuel. It's not just wishful thinking. Investors with deep ...
Jun 21, 2018
Immigration policy is atrocious, but we also have to look at the bigger picture
KAMLOOPS - It is hard to imagine the anguish of parents who are separated from their children at the U.S. border with Mexico. Parents coming into the U.S. hoping for a better life and the first thing ...
Jun 20, 2018
Report on sexual misconduct in schools short on details
KAMLOOPS - THE REPORT ON sexual misconduct in district schools says all the right things while at the same time saying very little at all - at least not much that's new or especially insightful. The b...
Jun 20, 2018
Oil companies: reminiscent of the tobacco industry of the 1970s
A RECENT OPINION PIECE in the Financial Post by Gwyn Morgan, founding and now retired CEO of EnCana, tackles the oil/jobs/climate change debate from the perspective of one who made his fortune in the ...
Jun 19, 2018
Boycotting American food products isn't that easy
IT'S NO SLAM DUNK boycotting American food products to get back at Trump. I took a look in our refrigerator and pantry and found that most of the food in there is from the U.S. For example, I quit dri...
Jun 19, 2018
Are we doing enough for our children?
KAMLOOPS - The Rose Garden at Riverside Park was all sparkle and glamour on Saturday. Some of this year's graduates, their families and friends were gathered for pictures and later, the grand march. T...
Jun 18, 2018
Three-minute anti-idling law won’t change anybody’s behaviour
KAMLOOPS - EVER THINK ABOUT how much gasoline we waste, and how much air pollution we pump into the atmosphere just by standing still? City council wants to amend its bylaws to make it a finable offen...
Jun 18, 2018
