Category Archives: Column
Are all the snow-clearing complaints really justified?
KAMLOOPS - Reasonable argument and genuine discussion is important to get a complete picture of any controversy. But I am totally disappointed with the tone of the vast number of complainers about thi...
Jan 19, 2018
His health, her health
KAMLOOPS - Medications affect women differently than men but you wouldn't know it from prescribed drugs. Take the sleep drug Ambien, for example. After the drug had been placed on the market, it was f...
Jan 18, 2018
Please spare us the Oprah-Donald contest in 2020
KAMLOOPS - It's co-incidental that Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump's inauguration, and that the nominations for the Academy Awards will be announced only a few days later. Coin...
Jan 18, 2018
Days of the family doctor may be coming to an end
KAMLOOPS - According to a report from the Canadian Medical Association last month, 15 per cent of British Columbians still don't have family doctors. If past estimates can be believed, it's double tha...
Jan 17, 2018
Is the false message worse than the actual threat?
KAMLOOPS - It has been pretty scary to watch Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea trade insults and threats over the past few months. The question of which one of them has the biggest ego and w...
Jan 17, 2018
When it comes to city business bylaws, father knows best
KAMLOOPS - Have you ever wondered if our local government is stuck in the late 1950s sitcom world of Father Knows Best? A world more familiar to their parents and grandparents and a make believe world...
Jan 16, 2018
Restaurants, please stop using those plastic straws
KAMLOOPS - Kudos to the Noble Pig for getting rid of plastic straws. It is, you might say, a noble thing to do. The popular local brewhouse and restaurant has decided to do away with straws in its dri...
Jan 16, 2018
Make safety part of your outdoor adventures
KAMLOOPS - To say that winter cannot make up its mind this year would be an understatement. It's been a weather seesaw of sorts since it first snowed in early November. Cold, snowy, warm, cold, snowy;...
Jan 15, 2018
Sears died because we’re too lazy to go shopping
KAMLOOPS - The closing of Canada's last Sears stores on Sunday can't be allowed to pass unlamented, so let's pause for a moment of reflection. Most of the stores that closed yesterday were in Ontario ...
Jan 15, 2018
Political hopefuls could learn a lot from Pat Wallace
KAMLOOPS - Pat Wallace hasn't been on Kamloops City council forever. It just seems like it, in a good way. When I arrived in Kamloops in 1970, it was the time of Mayor Peter Wing and councillors like ...
Jan 13, 2018
