Category Archives: Column
Consensus takes us a long way, but truth takes us farther
It's the day after fireworks and music and food trucks, the day when small glittery plastic maple leaves lie forgotten in the grass where yesterday's crowds gathered to celebrate Canada Day. Happy for...
Jul 03, 2017
Putting together a nation isn't an easy task
KAMLOOPS - Yesterday, we celebrated our country's 150th birthday. The usual kudos to our great country, lots of fun and frivolity, and, yes, a little controversy too as some of the still-raw sores con...
Jul 02, 2017
I forgive you, my big, beautiful, wonderful Canada
KAMLOOPS - Canada, you're not everything I'd like you to be. You're flawed. Like an uncertain child, you stumble from time to time. You make poor choices now and then, but I'm not disappointed in you....
Jul 01, 2017
Milobar was a steady captain in occasional rough waters
KAMLOOPS - As of today, Peter Milobar is officially no longer the mayor of Kamloops. First elected in 2008, Milobar was the longest serving mayor since amalgamation in 1967, and since incorporation in...
Jun 30, 2017
Is Horgan the cure for what’s ailing British Columbia?
KAMLOOPS - A new malady has swept through British Columbia - it's called Post-Election Stress Disorder. Those afflicted with it, which includes pretty much everybody, suffer from exhaustion and a gene...
Jun 30, 2017
Sometimes it's good to rant. Other times, not so much
KAMLOOPS - In the media, we sometimes speak before we know of what we speak. And then we have to issue retractions, or, to save face, I call them "clarifications.” Either way you look at it, we ...
Jun 29, 2017
No internet tax for Canadian media
KAMLOOPS - I agree with Conservatives who reject an internet tax to support Canadian media but for different reasons. Conservatives reject taxes do so because they reject government intervention in wh...
Jun 29, 2017
Does Kamloops really need more politicians?
KAMLOOPS - Councillor Denis Walsh mused at yesterday's Kamloops City council meeting about putting a referendum on the ballot with the Sept. 30 by-election. He didn't have any particular ideas about w...
Jun 28, 2017
More on Kamloops' recycling boondoggle
KAMLOOPS - Sometimes when you have so many good columnists working with you, you wind up treading on each others' toes when you have something that sticks in your craw. I have been ticked off for a we...
Jun 27, 2017
Follow the money in the flawed Kamloops recycling regime
KAMLOOPS - Does the City of Kamloops, or should I say, Kamloops City Council actually believe in and support recycling, or are they in it just for the money? I ask, as it seems the City still wants ou...
Jun 27, 2017
