Category Archives: Column
Keeping marijuana consumption off the streets a good idea
KAMLOOPS - I like Calgary's approach to the consumption of marijuana in public. Our Alberta neighbor is looking at restricting cannabis use to private homes. The provincial governments of both B.C. an...
Apr 04, 2018
Remembering Rob Ford – the good and the not-so-much
IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE it's been two years since the death of Rob Ford. Though he was the mayor of far-away Toronto, we felt as though we knew him. He may have been contemptible in his own way, bu...
Apr 03, 2018
New Chamber prez demonstrates a Knaak for moving the organization forward
KAMLOOPS - I recently met up with Joshua Knaak, the new president of the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce and for those who follow this column on a regular basis, you know that Mr. Knaak and I have in the...
Apr 03, 2018
Building a better world, one book at a time
KAMLOOPS - Canada Reads 2018 has wrapped up. The winning book is Forgiveness by Mark Sakamoto, defended by Jeanne Beker. I am looking forward to reading it; the rest that were in the 'battle of the bo...
Apr 02, 2018
How come some people get Easter Monday off, and others don’t?
KAMLOOPS - Happy Easter Monday. If you're a federal or provincial government employee and aren't in an essential service, you're likely off the job today, enjoying the last day of a four-day break. If...
Apr 02, 2018
The Chilcotin War and the rewriting of history
KAMLOOPS - The Justin Trudeau government, assisted by all opposition parties, this week completed a masterful rewriting of history. The prime minister joined with speakers for the Conservatives, NDP, ...
Mar 31, 2018
Anti-racism posters seemed like a good idea at the time
PARENTS ARE UNDERSTANDABLY SENSITIVE about what their kids are being taught in school, and they don't like surprises. Thus, when it came to light that schools in the Gold Trail School District - which...
Mar 29, 2018
In defence of Facebook
I LIKE FACEBOOK but I'm not an apologist for the social media giant. Facebook has done things wrong. They failed to prevent Cambridge Analytica from gathering detailed information of millions of users...
Mar 29, 2018
Get used to that bottleneck on the Connector - forever
KAMLOOPS - Every time I drive up or down the Summit Connector and negotiate that bottleneck at the hairpin turn, I dream of the Singh Street Bridge. I guess I can stop dreaming. The bridge is suddenly...
Mar 28, 2018
Mr. Dressup: a tradition you don't want to mess with
AS I WRITE THIS COLUMN, I realize it may cause some readers to wonder if I've gone to the dark side. They'll point, while avoiding eye contact and suggest I've lost my left-leaning ways as a writer an...
Mar 27, 2018
