Category Archives: Column
Time is now for Cavers, Milobar to step back from council
KAMLOOPS - Anyone who has ever been a parent of young children will recognize how important the five-minute warning is, whenever you want your child to transition from one activity to another. For exa...
Mar 24, 2017
Balancing the grief of families with public’s right to know
The concept of keeping secret the names of people who have died does not make sense in this modern world of transparency and rapid dissemination of information. Yet the B.C. Coroners Service, as repor...
Mar 24, 2017
Media under attack
KAMLOOPS - A recent report from the group Cision suggests the public's trust in the media is continuing to fall. Their 2017 State of the Media report indicates 91 per cent of respondents feel the medi...
Mar 24, 2017
By the time the trekkers got to Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - In April of 1935 they left their miserable camps and made their way to Vancouver. The camps had been set up in the middle of nowhere. Young men worked in the military-run camps for 20 cents...
Mar 23, 2017
Terry Lake can't be faulted for lack of effort
KAMLOOPS - When someone dies, we look for good things to say about them. We talk about their talents, their skills, the people and dogs they loved, their hobbies, and their volunteer work. When politi...
Mar 22, 2017
Norway a shining example of how to manage resource revenues
KAMLOOPS - I'm having a bit of a socialist moment today. A somewhat different kind of socialist moment though, as I want to be a millionaire like every man woman and child is in Norway. I mean let's f...
Mar 21, 2017
Are we wasting money on educational campaigns?
KAMLOOPS - We are spending an awful lot of money these days on educational programs aimed at various things. We are spending a lot trying to educate the public about drug use, about spotting behavior ...
Mar 21, 2017
One man’s garbage (in a park), is everyone’s garbage
A while ago I brought up the high density of dog poo I see everyday during the walks with my pup through Peterson Creek. We had a few more dumps of snow since, and the winter's magic act of covering t...
Mar 20, 2017
Can we still let kids be kids?
A long time ago, when the earth was still green- sorry, wrong story. Let me start again. When I was young, and it indeed was a long time ago, kids used to be allowed to be kids. I remember growing up ...
Mar 19, 2017
I have seen Trumpland, and all is not lost
I have been to Trumpland, and have returned safely to the bosom of my own country. It was relatively painless. America is much the same, in many ways, as when I lived there 50 years ago. Back then, of...
Mar 18, 2017
