Category Archives: Column
The death of Ajax hyperbole
KAMLOOPS - With the demise of the Ajax project will come the death of a peculiar breed of rheotrical device Kamloops residents have adopted over the past few years. I call it ‘Ajax hyperbole,...
Dec 15, 2017
Ajax is dead; let the healing begin
KAMLOOPS - Thursday's announcement that the Ajax project is dead might be the best news for the Kamloops region since the coming of the railroad. But what to do now? After six long years of splitting ...
Dec 15, 2017
Why would rules regarding smoking pot in public be any different than cigarettes?
KAMLOOPS - Short answer- they shouldn't be. Premier John Horgan said this week that marijuana smokers may have to abide by the same public smoking rules as tobacco users when cannabis becomes legal ne...
Dec 15, 2017
Cycling safety sure, but what about pedestrians?
KAMLOOPS - This is for the guy who almost ran me over with his bicycle. I was standing at an intersection waiting for the crosswalk light to change when he came barreling down the sidewalk - the sidew...
Dec 14, 2017
Climate change denial is not about science
KAMLOOPS - The minds of climate-change deniers won't be changed with scientific facts. For them, the real issue isn't science. There's a temptation to think that if all the facts were presented to den...
Dec 14, 2017
11th-Hour Award goes to KCBIA for nick-of-time parking reprieve
KAMLOOPS - I want to congratulate the Kamloops Central Business Improvement Association for discovering four years after it was scheduled, that a 25-cent-an-hour parking-rate increase wouldn't be popu...
Dec 13, 2017
Horgan’s reluctant ‘yes’ on Site C was the right call
KAMLOOPS - So, Site C is a go. Which leaves about half the people in B.C. happy as clams, and the other half mad as hatters. The Greens and their ilk are in the latter category, of course, but leader ...
Dec 12, 2017
Ya got trouble, right here in River City
KAMLOOPS - As I watched last week's city council meeting, I couldn't help but think of the old Broadway play, Music Man. It's a humorous musical about the arrival of a pool hall in conservative small-...
Dec 12, 2017
Why a different approach is needed this holiday season and beyond
KAMLOOPS - Last week, the conservation group Sea Legacy (co-founded by Canadian-born photographer and marine biologist Paul Nicklen and his partner Cristina Mittermeier, also a conservationist, photog...
Dec 11, 2017
If Greyhound is so essential, maybe we'll have to pay for it
KAMLOOPS - What's this world coming to? We're losing our department stores, the post office is in trouble, newspapers are dying - what's next? Rural bus service, that's what. The B.C. Passenger Transp...
Dec 11, 2017
