Category Archives: Column

KAMLOOPS - One can only hope the parking at TRU will soon improve to allow students to actually park on campus to attend classes. I think the University owes a big debt to nearby shopping centres who ...

KAMLOOPS - I want Terry Lake to pay attention. For the last couple of years, I've ranted about the doctor shortage. When my GP of many years shut down his service, I became a stray, like a homeless wa...

KAMLOOPS - It’s impossible to resist a few words in response to the thoughts presented by my colleague the Armchair Mayor earlier this week. You may remember he lamented the fact that employees ...

KAMLOOPS - A scant four days after a massive swap-and-shutdown of daily and community papers by Canadian media giants Torstar and Postmedia, the virus that has the newspaper industry on its knees has ...

KAMLOOPS - What was once a trickle has become a torrent of reports from women of how they were groped, fondled, molested, assaulted, raped, and verbally abused; how they fought off the unwanted sexual...

KAMLOOPS - Finally, some good news for our friends south of the border. All week long, the American networks and newspapers have been crowing about the fact a U.S. citizen has become engaged to Prince...

KAMLOOPS - I seem to have hit a sore spot with my thoughts on the friendliness, or unfriendliness, of cashiers. The reaction has been quite interesting - a lot of people seem to think the fault is wit...

KAMLOOPS - I have mixed feelings about shopping at the best of times. If I'm looking for a new power saw or some electronics, I'm in. The everyday bread and milk, not so much. The problem with the Chr...

KAMLOOPS - Let's start this week's blog with a bold statement. Something along the lines of, "The performing arts centre (PAC) does not belong, nor is it needed in the downtown core of Kamloops." In f...

KAMLOOPS - It was on Tuesday evening last week that I deleted (again) all the promotional emails from my inbox; there were a few hundred of them. It is now Saturday afternoon and another load of 234 p...