Category Archives: Column
Nancy Greene Raine no ordinary senator
NANCY GREENE RAINE has never been one to sit still, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that she is behind one of the more consequential actions to come out of the Canadian senate in recent memory. Gr...
May 04, 2018
Facebook is a Canadian utility
SO MANY CANADIANS use Facebook that it should be regulated like any other Canadian utility. No broadcaster or telephone company would operate in Canada without government oversight. We should make it ...
May 03, 2018
What's the government waiting for on PR referendum?
THE B.C. LEGISLATURE returns to work next week and maybe we'll finally get some answers about the big referendum on electoral-system change. The last provincial election was a year ago and John Horgan...
May 03, 2018
Addicts’ safety shouldn’t come ahead of general public’s
KAMLOOPS - When delegates to the annual B.C. Chamber of Commerce convention get together in Kamloops later this month, they'll have plenty of ideas on how to further the interests of business. A great...
May 02, 2018
If we want free blood, we’ll have to pay for it
KAMLOOPS - SHOULD WE BE PAID for giving our blood? The very thought of it has long been offensive to our Canadian values. Free blood is regarded as a basic human right, and the people who provide that...
May 01, 2018
Pipeline opponents and supporters should agree: fossil fuels are running out
I CRINGE with almost every conversation and social media post about the Kinder Morgan pipeline as inevitably someone, thinking they are quite witty and original, will say something like: "Well if you'...
May 01, 2018
This is tax day and here’s what we get for our money
KAMLOOPS - This is tax day, for most of us, the deadline for filing our income-tax returns. If we're lucky, we'll get a little money back from all those deductions during 2017; if not, we'll be writin...
Apr 30, 2018
The simplicity files: One seed at a time
KAMLOOPS - I am breaking the rules of local gardening. It is still April yet the patch of garden in the backyard is all dug up, ready to be seeded. I open the big bag of compost manure and spread it a...
Apr 30, 2018
Suzuki row shows risk of relying on corporate funding
SOME OF OUR FRIENDS from next door should take a pill. They're so over-wrought they're losing their focus, snapping like a blind dog without a bone. Albertans are peeved over the Trans Mountain pipeli...
Apr 28, 2018
Get that garbage out of here
NO ONE IS HAPPY that children are discovering piles of used needles in our parks and green spaces. And the principles of personal and social responsibility suggest adults, even if they are drug users,...
Apr 27, 2018
