Category Archives: Column
Every move you make, 'they' are watching you
'If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.' - George Orwell, 1984 If you'd been at the privacy and security conference at TRU this week you wouldn't be reading this. You would...
Feb 03, 2018
What could a leader from the Interior mean for the Interior? No one knows
KAMLOOPS - Todd Stone must feel like the prettiest girl in the dance. That’s what it’s like when everyone’s looking at you, right? As the BC Liberal leadership wound to a close this ...
Feb 02, 2018
Stone still has a shot despite some stormy weather
KAMLOOPS - As BC Liberals begin voting on a new leader today, one of the big questions is whether the waves that have rocked Todd Stone's boat this week will swamp his aspirations. It hasn't been a go...
Feb 01, 2018
The future of blockchain mining in B.C.
KAMLOOPS - Blockchain mines look nothing like copper mines. They are banks of computer that toil away at solving complex calculations. Blockchain is the digital ledger used by many cryptocurrencies su...
Feb 01, 2018
City’s top brass take the guff, get little of the credit
KAMLOOPS - Wanted: highly qualified, experienced individual to manage heavy workload, work long hours and handle unrelenting daily stress. Benefits include excellent pay and all the abuse you can take...
Jan 31, 2018
Testy days at City Hall
KAMLOOPS - Things got a bit testy at City Hall last Tuesday when Councillor Cavers introduced his motion asking staff to review and have a look at best practices when it came to snow removal. What app...
Jan 30, 2018
A little Kamloops bakery shows the big guys how to do it
KAMLOOPS - Being somewhat a student of crisis management, I'm always interested when big corporations face major PR problems. Do they apologize right away or try to avoid it? Do they take ownership of...
Jan 30, 2018
Perhaps we should take a better look at what our children are using
KAMLOOPS - We live close to one of the public high schools, which means that on any given day during lunch break, there is a stream of teens walking in front of our house, many of them shrouded in whi...
Jan 29, 2018
Blame BC Liberals when ICBC premiums go up again
KAMLOOPS - Just for fun, I dug out my file of auto insurance payments yesterday. I'm now paying roughly 35 per cent more on insurance for my 13-year-old truck than when I bought it back in 2010. That'...
Jan 29, 2018
Giving animals the benefit of the precautionary principle
KAMLOOPS - One snowy evening two winters ago, I happened to look out a window towards our hay shed, a couple of hundred steps from the house. A motion-sensor light on the shed suddenly came on as a fe...
Jan 27, 2018
