Category Archives: Column

SHOULD 16-YEAR-OLDS GET THE VOTE? BC Green Party leader Andrew Weaver thinks so. He's introduced another Private Member's bill to lower the voting age in B.C. to 16 from 18. Premier John Horgan says h...

KAMLOOPS - Where are all the responsible politicians in these Trans Mountain pipeline protests? The ones who obey the law? Sure, they're out there, but why aren't they front and centre condemning the ...

KAMLOOPS - Few are the things able to ward off the ugly memory of the growing garbage revealed by the melting snowpack. Where garbage lies, there are also cheery birds such as robins and meadowlarks, ...

Thoughts and prayers have been getting a bad rap lately. Commentators are trashing them as over-used, empty and meaningless. They're referring to the sympathies offered by politicians when a large num...

UBER HAS SUSPENDED ITS TESTING of self-driving vehicles after a vehicle on self-driving mode hit and killed a pedestrian in Arizona this week. Small picture, it’s of course tragic for the person...

MUST BE SPRING - gas prices are about to go up again. There are all kinds of excuses whenever it happens - refineries shutting down for maintenance, fluctuations in supply and demand, more cars on the...

IF IT MAKES SENSE for girls to enter programs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), then it makes even more sense to employ immigrant women who already have these skills. Girls should t...

KAMLOOPS - Can you hear it - the exasperation from gun owners at Tuesday's unveiling of new federal firearms legislation? The new rules will do nothing to increase public safety, while targeting law-a...

A WEEK OF RUMOURS, speculation, intrigue and drugs. Whoever thinks life in Kamloops is life in the slow lane has not been paying attention to the ever-unfolding story of cannabis retailers vs. the Cit...

KAMLOOPS - A few days ago, I read about a teacher in the Chilcotin being suspended for one week and being sent to a course on how to create a positive environment in the classroom. The points on which...