Category Archives: Column
Mayoral election looks like a zero-sum game
KAMLOOPS - When voters elect a mayor, how much of what he or she says can they expect to come about? How valid, in other words, are their promises? The number "zero" came to the fore last week in two ...
Aug 21, 2017
Media can’t be objective about Trump
KAMLOOPS - Almost everything Donald Trump says and does is so utterly loathsome to me that I fear I've lost all sense of objectivity about the man. And that is clearly what has happened with the major...
Aug 19, 2017
Media can't be objective about Trump
KAMLOOPS - Almost everything Donald Trump says and does is so utterly loathsome to me that I fear I've lost all sense of objectivity about the man. And that is clearly what has happened with the major...
Aug 18, 2017
Rage all you want; our society is changing
KAMLOOPS - There may be no stronger force known to humanity than the force of societal change. Our society will evolve in the face of all efforts to the contrary. For too many, the idea of a changing ...
Aug 18, 2017
You sure can't please everyone
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops put out a news release this week, giving people the latest on the Elephant Hill The wildfire which is slowly creeping towards Kamloops. The idea of the release was to t...
Aug 18, 2017
Cry for Venezuela
KAMLOOPS - The dream of a socialist Venezuela has turned into a nightmare. It's depressing to see the disintegration of President Hugo Chvez's attempt at political reform. Chvez, elected in 1999, was ...
Aug 16, 2017
City Hall mad as hell over Ajax
KAMLOOPS - An exciting thing happened in Kamloops City council chambers yesterday. After years of being oh-so-properly-neutral on Ajax, the council and the staff that council employs stood up on their...
Aug 16, 2017
Magic is better under clear skies and in clean air
KAMLOOPS - It happened that we could not easily escape on my husband's three days off work as most of the clean air destinations were booked. Plus the sky around here got clear on Friday, so we decide...
Aug 14, 2017
BEING MAYOR, Chapter 4: ‘Kamloops at a crossroads’
KAMLOOPS - This is the fourth in a series on my experiences as the mayor of Kamloops from 1999 to 2005. I offer it for the interest of anyone who cares about civic politics and their community, and wh...
Aug 14, 2017
Has anybody been listening to us on Ajax?
KAMLOOPS - There's enough in the joint federal-provincial report on Ajax to make you wonder whether anybody in senior government bureaucracies has been listening. The book-length report, entitled the ...
Aug 13, 2017
