Category Archives: Column
Sometimes you can carry criticism too far
KAMLOOPS - Oh, c'mon. Sophie Grgoire Trudeau can't post a picture of herself holding hands with her husband without being criticized? The wife of the prime minister got a lot of brickbats on Internati...
Mar 09, 2017
The future of smart radios
KAMLOOPS - I imagine that the future of radio will combine traditional FM with the technology of smart phones. I'm not talking about the distant future: the FM broadcast protocols already exist and mo...
Mar 09, 2017
Feeling like a healthcare football these days
KAMLOOPS -You'll have to excuse me if I'm feeling like the proverbial football these days when it comes to my health care, and I'm willing to bet a lot of others are feeling the same way. A couple of ...
Mar 08, 2017
RCMP deserve praise for ‘slow but steady’ investigation
KAMLOOPS - There was a collective sigh of relief in the community Monday when Supt. Brad Mueller announced that charges have been laid in the hit-and-run death of Jenn Gatey, a teenager killed as she ...
Mar 07, 2017
Teachers need to come to the table, too
KAMLOOPS - Now that teachers have a new contract, there will be many more teachers in the classroom come September, and students will be able to learn better and both they and teachers will have more ...
Mar 07, 2017
The writ hasn't dropped, but silly season is well underway
KAMLOOPS - Okay everyone, I take a short break from this column, leave you alone with the province for just a few weeks and what do you do while I'm not looking? You let the pre-election silly season ...
Mar 07, 2017
Best thing for all would be a graceful exit by KGHM
KAMLOOPS - Can there be any doubt that the proposed Ajax mine is dead? The importance of the decision by local First Nations to unequivocally reject the project can't be under-estimated. This past wee...
Mar 06, 2017
If not us, then who, and if not now, then when?
KAMLOOPS - There was a card game I loved playing when I was little. Each card depicted an animal and relevant information about it, including their status: a few were close to being extinct, others we...
Mar 06, 2017
To my friends on social media
KAMLOOPS - I have embraced social media as much as a non-technical person can. I don't know all the ins and outs of hashtags and analytics and the finer points of how it all works. I have people who w...
Mar 05, 2017
We’re becoming mere tenants in our own country
KAMLOOPS - There was a time when Canadians made things, and owned what we made. I'm thinking about this as we struggle with the sale of Retirement Concepts to a Chinese outfit, and in the wake of the ...
Mar 04, 2017
