Category Archives: Column

KAMLOOPS - Politicians! There are weeks when the only thing you can do is give your head a shake and wonder in bemused befuddlement, if we have indeed entered the Twilight Zone of local politics. Here...

KAMLOOPS - We've lost our sense of humour. I recently made a joke about Prince George in an editorial and received a heated rebuke from a reader. I fully expected to get the same for some jokes about ...

KAMLOOPS - Does Mark Zuckerberg know what he wants? Facebook has now surpassed almost every other medium as the news source of choice for most of us. We wish it weren’t so, but it is and those o...

KAMLOOPS - If I asked you, "What's the worst parking experience in the world?" you'd probably answer, "downtown Kamloops." If I said, "Nope, try again," you'd probably say, "Royal Inland Hospital." Yo...

KAMLOOPS - A new drug in Canada will make medically-assisted death easier. It can't come soon enough. If I had a terminal illness that made my life a living hell, I would want medical assistance in dy...

KAMLOOPS - Some would call what's going on between B.C. and Alberta brinkmanship. Some would call it the politics of confrontation. I'd call it playing silly buggers. First, B.C. gives notice it wants...

KAMLOOPS - The B.C. Liberals may have unintentionally found a compromise to the debate on electoral reform. In electing a new party leader last weekend, they used a preferential voting system, with me...

KAMLOOPS - Okay class, settle down now and let's get on with our lesson on permissive vandalism and how the rule of law and common sense can be suspended for those promoting social justice. As you may...

KAMLOOPS - The BC Liberals have picked a Kamloops boy as their new leader, but not the one many were expecting. Andrew Wilkinson once attended John Peterson secondary school before he moved onto other...

KAMLOOPS - Few things are more unsettling than the words 'coloured discharge' or 'sludgy brown cloud' when attached to the state of a natural body of water, such as a river or a lake, which people use...