Category Archives: Column
Saying the bad guys won’t change us isn’t an answer
KAMLOOPS - Little by little, we're finding out more about the killer and his victims in this week's van attack in Toronto. The victims range in age from their 20s to 80s, from a single mom to a grandm...
Apr 26, 2018
Canadians look beyond America
FOR THE FIRST TIME in decades, Canadians are more likely to hold a negative view of the U.S. than positive. According to a survey by the Environics Institute, it's the lowest ever with only 44 per cen...
Apr 26, 2018
Heritage House parking lot should be off limits to development
KAMLOOPS - Keeping an open mind is usually a good thing, but not always. Kamloops City council got a surprise yesterday when resident Ruth Madsen let the cat out of the bag during public inquiries at ...
Apr 25, 2018
Social media users are fertile ground for data farmers
MANY OF YOU are probably not aware of this, but back in 2004, when Gmail was launched, Google would digitally scan your emails and based on what you had written, would specifically target you with ads...
Apr 24, 2018
This minimum-wage and tips system costs too much
LIQUOR SERVERS will, eventually, make as much in wages as other minimum-wage earners in B.C. and it makes total sense. Currently, they get only $10.10 an hour, compared to the regular minimum of $11.3...
Apr 24, 2018
There’s nothing wrong with giving our schools a report card
KAMLOOPS - The Fraser Institute's annual elementary school rankings are out. This, of course, drives educators bonkers. Most schools in the Kamloops district rank so-so, a few get high grades, and a f...
Apr 23, 2018
Wildlife deserves better, while there is still time
KAMLOOPS - The news about the caribou in the South Selkirks read like a bad joke: only three animals left, all female. If none is pregnant...well, that would be that. It will be 19,000 caribou -presen...
Apr 23, 2018
Running a university is no easy gig
KAMLOOPS - The announcement of Thompson Rivers University's new president had scarcely been made before word got around about a high-profile incident he'd been involved in at his former place of emplo...
Apr 23, 2018
Monty Python predicted social media in the 1970s
NETFLIX recently added a whole host of goodies for Monty Python fans, including live performances and episodes of the original BBC television shows. Of course, that development meant I had to give Net...
Apr 20, 2018
Canada Post still has work to do on theft-proofing community mailboxes
If you thought your mail was safe in the new community mailboxes, don't be so sure. Living in a rural area, I pick up my mail from one of those boxes, and the anti-theft design of the newer ones is cl...
Apr 19, 2018
