Category Archives: Column
The dark side of summer heat
KAMLOOPS - I cannot imagine a worse nightmare than losing a child. And yet, there it is: accidentally causing it by forgetting to remove the child from the car in hot weather. Sometimes it is parents ...
May 28, 2018
Are we too easy, or too tough on our young?
"AT THE AGE OF NINE I had to do the work of a teenager, working with four horses hitched to a set of harrows walking behind barefooted. Boots couldn't be worn because they would fill up with dirt, the...
May 26, 2018
It's time for Kamloops to ratchet up recruiting in the Lower Mainland
IF THE LOWER MAINLAND hasn’t heard all about Kamloops by now, someone isn’t doing their job. Kamloops has a number of agencies dedicated to turning the spotlight on our fair city. Tourism ...
May 25, 2018
Homoeopathy debate re-ignited
KAMLOOPS - Questions about the practice of homoeopathy have been re-ignited by two recent events. One has to do with a homeopathic rabid-dog-saliva treatment and the other about the retrial of a coupl...
May 24, 2018
Traffic plan should return Seymour Street to two-way
KAMLOOPS CITY HALL is in the last days of its public-input phase for a new transportation master plan. If you haven't read the draft plan, you should because it includes a lot of good concepts. It tal...
May 24, 2018
Homeopathy debate reignited
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PRACTICE of homoeopathy have been reignited by two recent events. One has to do with a homeopathic rabid dog saliva treatment and the other about the retrial of a couple originally...
May 24, 2018
Here's an answer to vehicle-pedestrian accidents
ONE OF THE MOST dangerous places in town is any intersection when you're a pedestrian trying to get across. You never know when a driver is going to be careless and hang a sharp right through a crossw...
May 23, 2018
The question that shouldn’t be asked at the U.S. border
KAMLOOPS - The sad state of Canada-U.S. relations is no more obvious than in the marijuana border rule. Let me explain. Recreational use of marijuana will become legal in Canada later this year. Recre...
May 22, 2018
Time for the City to correct a big mistake
KAMLOOPS - What building did the City sell to the private sector for $1 that every summer sees more than a 100,000 high-end visitors from around the world? Need another hint? It is one of the few heri...
May 22, 2018
Royals should never be like the rest of us
KAMLOOPS - You'd have to be living under a rock not to know there was a big wedding this Victoria Day weekend. And even if you didn't get up in the middle of the night to watch it on the telly, you no...
May 21, 2018
