Category Archives: Column
The U.S. government as theatre
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION doesn't make sense as government. He has no coherent foreign or domestic policies. He fires trusted advisors regularly. White House staff wake up each morning and check their ...
Mar 15, 2018
NDP government too hasty in rolling out new taxes
THE NDP GOVERNMENT had a couple of big economic problems to try to address as it prepared for its first full budget last month. It had to do something about the affordability crisis in the Lower Mainl...
Mar 14, 2018
City of Kamloops work to address affordable housing exemplary
IT’S GRATIFYING to see a problem identified in Kamloops, and then work being done to solve it. In 2013, a needs assessment for affordable housing found the city should add no fewer than 2,222 ne...
Mar 14, 2018
A tale of two provinces
ALBERTA PREMIER RACHEL NOTLEY is again acting like the churlish premier she has become as she shifts from attacking B.C.'s wine industry to threatening all B.C. residents with the spectre of limited o...
Mar 13, 2018
The beauty and necessity of a story well told
KAMLOOPS - I have been looking forward to seeing the movie Indian Horse from the day my friend Richard mentioned the possibility of it happening. That was a few years ago. He was humbled and beyond ha...
Mar 12, 2018
BC can't go it alone on time change
SPRING HAS TO COME SOME TIME, RIGHT? It hasn’t skipped BC yet. Even as our temperatures linger below seasonal norms and the snow keeps piling up, we have to believe spring will eventually visit ...
Mar 09, 2018
Hit bad drivers in wallet, make training mandatory
The B.C. government's latest public-input exercise is underway and this time it's about auto insurance. The overall objective is logical: make bad drivers pay more for insurance, while good drivers pa...
Mar 08, 2018
Blockchain could revolutionize global banking
THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION is drawing to a close. Evidence of that has been made clear by President Trump's withdrawal from global affairs, his attempt to build an economic and physical wall around the ...
Mar 08, 2018
It’s hard to be friends with Trump’s America
KAMLOOPS - It takes years to build a good friendship, and a very short time to destroy one. Friendship takes trust, loyalty, dependability and honesty. Without those things, friendships quickly wither...
Mar 07, 2018
Thoughts, prayers and pixie dust
IF THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS or even pixie dust were real and viable solutions to the problems we face, then the world would be a far better place. There would have been no Auschwitz, no Killing Fields, no...
Mar 06, 2018
