Category Archives: Column
The ‘It’s not who I am’ excuse doesn’t work anymore
There's an old saying in business, "It's better to ask forgiveness than permission." Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. There's a new saying when somebody gets caught on camera doing something ...
May 12, 2018
Why were we all so intrigued by the emergency alert test?
YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT it was the apocalypse. CFJC’s staff was sitting in a meeting on Wednesday when the much talked about emergency alert test took place. Simultaneously, about 30 phones start...
May 11, 2018
Leave Roderick Haig-Brown’s name on provincial park
KAMLOOPS - Every year, thousands flock to Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park in the Shuswap to enjoy the Adams River sockeye run. That park will soon be no more - at least not by its current name - a...
May 10, 2018
New doctors need to give up sense of entitlement
THERE ARE MORE DOCTORS than ever before; yet two million Canadians can't find one. An estimated 30,000 Kamloopsians don't have a family doctor, although only about one-half of them are looking if nati...
May 10, 2018
Panhandlers aren’t the ones we need to be worried about
Aggressive panhandling, we're being told, is once again on the rise in downtown Kamloops. According to a report to the City's community safety committee, complaints have increased quite dramatically i...
May 09, 2018
Busting pot shops not the best use of resources
KAMLOOPS - Armed with a search warrant, RCMP walked into the Canna Clinic medical marijuana dispensary on Hillside Drive yesterday, scooped up some evidence, and arrested two people. According to a Ci...
May 08, 2018
They've got us over a barrel
Have you ever wondered how to get the attention of gas retailers such as Petro Can, Chevron or others? I have, and if coffee shop conversations are any indicator, so too have many of you. The price of...
May 08, 2018
City at least half right with proposal for McIsland golf property
KAMLOOPS - Well, it looks like the City is on the right track with the question of what to do with the McArthur Island mini-golf property. A report will come to Council tomorrow revealing that, by a s...
May 07, 2018
Simply showing up is not enough
KAMLOOPS - Over the weekend, our youngest had a karate testing for green belt. He became appropriately nervous as the day drew nearer, but also told me that he is looking at it as if it is another cla...
May 07, 2018
City's newest public art piece should have good wheels
I CAN HARDLY WAIT for the unveiling of our next major piece of public art, a monument to the volunteers of the 2017 wildfires. Public art in Kamloops is always like opening a box of Cracker Jacks - we...
May 05, 2018
