Category Archives: Column
Surveillance cameras popular on streets — but do they work?
WITH ALL THE CONCERN about crime in our streets, wouldn't it help if we had surveillance cameras everywhere? Some cities are thinking that way. Richmond will spend $2 million for video surveillance th...
Feb 27, 2018
Principle of no-mine buffer zone around communities is sound
KAMLOOPS - I've been reading the reaction on social media to Coun. Dieter Dudy's proposal to establish a 10-km. buffer zone around communities that would stop mines from being developed within them. I...
Feb 26, 2018
More guns is never the answer to the gun problem
KAMLOOPS - I remember when the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting happened. I remember looking at my youngest son's hands as he was drawing right next to me. They were little, the roundness of his ...
Feb 26, 2018
Getting people from A to B keeps getting harder
IN AN AGE when we can send huge amounts of information to the other side of the world in the blink of an eye, here in the Interior of B.C. we have trouble moving people from one place to another. Grey...
Feb 24, 2018
Olympic men's hockey tournament was a half-measure
KAMLOOPS - My reaction as a hockey fan and proud Canadian supporter to this morning’s men’s hockey loss was a little surprising to myself. I saw that Germany had defeated Canada 4-3 - and ...
Feb 23, 2018
Spirit Square project will turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse
KAMLOOPS - Sometimes the City of Kamloops gets it right and I think the new plan for Spirit Square is one of those times. Arpa Investments and the City announced agreement this week on a land swap tha...
Feb 23, 2018
Olympics find new ways to surprise, and not in a good way
JUST WHEN WE THINK there are no new ways the Olympics can surprise us, they do - and not in a good way. Never mind that half the competitions have taken place in the middle of the night - we can't bla...
Feb 22, 2018
The beaver is Canadian
THE BEAVER exemplifies what it means to be Canadian. Rachel Poliquin puts it this way: "Humpbacked and portly, with an earnest and honest charm, beavers epitomize the Canadian spirit of unpretentiousn...
Feb 22, 2018
How affordable is this ‘make life more affordable’ budget?
KAMLOOPS - If there was ever any doubt there's no middle ground in B.C. politics, the NDP government's budget announced yesterday removes it. The Liberals, when they were in power, were notorious chea...
Feb 21, 2018
Replacing those stolen plaques is long overdue
KAMLOOPS - Every time I drive or walk past City Hall I get mad. Not mad at what's going on inside; mad at what's going on outside. The Overlanders statue at the corner of Victoria Street and First Ave...
Feb 20, 2018
