Category Archives: Column
Ready to run?
ON WEDNESDAY, May 30, Shelley Joyce excellently moderated a panel discussion called "Ready to Run" at City Hall with 3 women who have served in municipal politics for the City of Kamloops. Kathy Sincl...
Jun 03, 2018
Going behind the headlines to get the whole story
HEADLINES are a good way of finding out if we want to read a news story. But the news story itself is filtered by the writer based on his or her idea of which facts are worth knowing about. Three news...
Jun 02, 2018
How do we explain justice to our children after a week like this?
MY CHILDREN are getting to the age where the questions they ask are difficult and complicated to answer. I’m not looking forward to the time when they start asking the big questions about justic...
Jun 01, 2018
McLeod’s private member’s bill on medical pot was common sense
KAMLOOPS - A private member's bill sponsored by Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod went down in flames Wednesday but she has the satisfaction of raising a reasonable point. McLeod's Bill C-330,...
Jun 01, 2018
More reasons for reduced guilt while flying
I FEEL LESS GUILTY flying on vacation now that I've compared flying with driving by car. Both contribute to global warming about the same. Comparisons between the two are tricky because there are many...
May 31, 2018
Multiple-choice ballot will sink proportional representation
KAMLOOPS - Let's see if we can boil down the plan for a referendum on electoral-system changes in B.C., shall we? Notice, by the way, I use the neutral term "electoral-system change" rather than the l...
May 31, 2018
Buying Trans Mountain is a gutsy move, but the wrong one
KAMLOOPS - The bad news is that we're in for $4.5 billion plus probably a bunch more. The good news is.... Well, there isn't any. Tuesday's revelation that the feds will buy - on our behalf - the Tran...
May 30, 2018
Outcome of hit-and-run case brings scant comfort
KAMLOOPS - It's true that the loss of a loved one can never be made right by the courts. But families are at least comforted when they feel justice has been served. Jason Gourlay, the man who accident...
May 29, 2018
Climate change? I thought it was just a hoax
Last summer was a devastating year for the Cariboo, with nearly 20 wildfires merging into one and creating a firestorm on the Cariboo Plateau that had never been experienced in anyone's lifetime. In B...
May 29, 2018
One tiny spill sets the scene for a tense week on pipeline front
KAMLOOPS - As tiny as it was, the leak in the Trans Mountain line at Darfield on the weekend came at a bad time for pipeline proponents. Thursday is the self-imposed deadline for Kinder Morgan to deci...
May 28, 2018
