Category Archives: Column
Urban winter wussies need to count their blessings
KAMLOOPS – I was standing at the window Friday morning, enjoying my first jolt of caffeine, gazing out at the frozen river. It's always frozen this time of year. In the background, the TV news w...
Jan 06, 2018
Residency Program a promising way to find new doctors
KAMLOOPS - With thousands of people in Kamloops without a family doctor, many are putting faith in a Residency program that started in 2014, and continues to provide good results. The idea is that the...
Jan 05, 2018
Time for a good dose of civility
KAMLOOPS - The Armchair Mayor and I were talking the other day about the good and bad of social media. We are both totally amazed at the lack of civility shown by people on Twitter, Facebook and web s...
Jan 05, 2018
We shouldn’t have to apply for homeowner grant every year
KAMLOOPS - Close on the heels of property assessment mail-outs, the Province has announced a bump in the 2018 homeowner grant threshold. Assessments are up, and while many people think that automatica...
Jan 04, 2018
Germany pays customers to use electricity
KAMLOOPS - German power companies paid customers to use electricity on one hundred occasions in 2017. Companies paid customers a lot relative to what they normally receive -1,720 times more per kilowa...
Jan 04, 2018
Why not allow dogs where we eat and drink?
KAMLOOPS - On a trip to Scotland a few years ago, I was struck by how pleasant it was to go into a pub or a restaurant and, as often as not, see one of the locals sitting at a table with their faithfu...
Jan 03, 2018
Canada’s 150th birthday party was worth the sticker shock
KAMLOOPS - As 2017 passed into the history books the other night, you may or may not have thought about the end of our nation's celebration of 150 years. It's worth thinking about, because we spent an...
Jan 02, 2018
Let's get serious about jobs
KAMLOOPS - With the arrival of the New Year and Ajax now relegated to the news highlight reels of 2017, I can think of no better time for Kamloops to start getting serious about jobs and meaningful em...
Jan 02, 2018
2018 promises to be a very important year
KAMLOOPS – Welcome to 2018. It's going well so far. At this time, it's traditional for journalists - who fancy themselves quite the clever, amusing lot - to make silly predictions about what wil...
Jan 01, 2018
2018 promises to be a very important year
KAMLOOPS – Welcome to 2018. It's going well so far. At this time, it's traditional for journalists - who fancy themselves quite the clever, amusing lot - to make silly predictions about what wil...
Jan 01, 2018
