Category Archives: Column
What's needling me (hypodermically speaking)
ALONG WITH MANY OTHER concerned citizens of Kamloops, I've been reading, following, witnessing and becoming educated about the serious problem of discarded needles in our city. I've participated in ro...
Jun 10, 2018
Why we fear rattlesnakes more than clowns
THERE WAS A GUY who lived in our home town when I was growing up who made the local paper every year. He was a minor celebrity, a bit of a folk hero, even, because he killed rattlesnakes. Each spring,...
Jun 09, 2018
In the Gold Trail white privilege debate, both sides are right
THE DEBATE OVER WHITE PRIVILEGE has reached a tipping point in Ashcroft and Cache Creek. When Gold Trail School District Superintendent Teresa Downs and her administration decided to put up a set of p...
Jun 08, 2018
Empty pipelines spill no oil
THE KINDER MORGAN pipeline should be built for the same reason as the pyramids - as a national monument. The pyramids employed workers but served no practical purpose other than a grand burial site fo...
Jun 07, 2018
Next time CNN messes with Canada, call Samantha Bee
We Canadians are not only polite, but we're very, very sensitive. It's OK for us to be rude to our own politicians, but heaven forbid an American TV network should do it. CNN, those cads, referred to ...
Jun 07, 2018
How do we get to reconciliation on Trans Mountain?
KAMLOOPS - A couple of thoughts today on the ever-shifting tarsands, if you'll excuse the pun. Two phrases are tossed around almost daily in connection with the Trans Mountain pipeline. One of them is...
Jun 06, 2018
The old neighbourhood isn't what it used to be
WHATEVER HAPPENED to our neighbourhoods? They used to be peaceful places, where kids grew up in safely and everybody could depend on everybody else. Father Knows Best, Leave it to Beaver, Happy Days. ...
Jun 05, 2018
Charlotte Whitton would not have been pleased with women in politics forum
I’M GOING TO TAKE ON a subject this week that, for an opinion writer, is fraught with peril and affords an even higher degree of risk when said writer is male, white and supposedly privileged. S...
Jun 05, 2018
Have B.C. Greens really made any difference?
KAMLOOPS - It's been a year since the NDP and Greens teamed up to take power away from the BC Liberals and, to hear the Greens tell it, the past 12 months have been nothing short of fabulous. The part...
Jun 04, 2018
So many things we take for granted
KAMLOOPS - The rain picks up as we pass Williams Lake. We had left behind a sunny Quesnel after a return trip to Barkerville, which we first got to see three years ago. A lot has happened since. On ou...
Jun 04, 2018
