Category Archives: Column
The horse-and-buggy days of news media are over
KAMLOOPS - Any time there's a tremor in a local media outlet, it rattles news junkies. Kamloops is full of news junkies. We worry about where our news is coming from. According to a report this week, ...
Nov 18, 2017
Can we ever appreciate the work of Hollywood sex abusers again?
KAMLOOPS - It’s about time we had some good news to trumpet coming from our neighbours to the south. And with the avalanche of sexual assault allegations coming forward against powerful men in H...
Nov 17, 2017
My beef with Canada’s new food guide
KAMLOOPS - Canada's new food guide is being influenced by agencies whose chief focus is the consumption of their products, not our health. Food industries and a branch of government, Agri-food Canada,...
Nov 16, 2017
Growing marijuana is one thing, selling it is something else
KAMLOOPS - Among the many questions still to be answered on how best to deal with the legalization of recreational marijuana is - who should sell it? In B.C. there are several options, depending on wh...
Nov 16, 2017
What if our own leaders were as candid as Rodrigo Duterte?
KAMLOOPS - Have you ever been to a meeting and later heard someone else who was there describe what happened, and wonder whether you were at two different meetings? Yesterday, Prime Minister Justin Tr...
Nov 15, 2017
Portugal no rogue state of hippie drug enthusiasts
KAMLOOPS - Last week's column on our failed policies of criminalization and enforcement on drug use generated a large number of comments with opinions ranging from: "Build large warehouse prisons and ...
Nov 14, 2017
No, Coun. Denis Walsh has not gone stark, raving mad
KAMLOOPS - Politics is an interesting business - one day you're a hero, the next you're a bum. If Coun. Denis Walsh didn't already know that, he's finding out. Some people are convinced he should sign...
Nov 14, 2017
Using the last word on guns and parking
KAMLOOPS - One of the great things about this job is having the last word. Today, I'm going to use it twice. First, quite a few gun owners told me last week I don't know what I'm talking about when it...
Nov 13, 2017
We’re all guardians of our breathing space
KAMLOOPS - If you hike to the top of Peterson Creek Park on any given day, more so on a cold one, you'll see a blanket of yellowish, dirty air draped over the valley. This is not new or unexpected. Th...
Nov 13, 2017
Wars and soldiers we have forgotten
KAMLOOPS - Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the Charge of the Light Brigade Talk to war veterans, and one of their biggest worries is that we'll forget them. ...
Nov 11, 2017
