Category Archives: Column

KAMLOOPS - Enough already!! We already know that the city streets aren't in ideal condition. We already know that the sidewalks in some cases are atrocious. We know that intersections are full of wate...

KAMLOOPS - We have lost a great Canadian story teller but we have his stories to keep the memory of him fresh, forever. I'm talking, of course, about Stuart McLean, the man who became a part of our Su...

KAMLOOPS - Medieval scientists believed that radio waves were carried through a medium they called the aether. Seems sensible. If sound waves require a medium, why not radio waves? It turns out that r...

KAMLOOPS - Throne Speeches are always vague (governments preferring to keep the good stuff for budgets) but the one delivered Tuesday in Victoria was masterfully done - so bereft of specifics yet so c...

KAMLOOPS - Many questions need answering following the series of snowstorms and the resultant problems on area highways over the past week or so. In particular, we need to address the problems on the ...

KAMLOOPS - Again, a week of many happenings. Like many of you who heard the story of the Kamloops couple who stopped to offer their help at an accident scene on the Coquihalla and were hit by a car th...

KAMLOOPS - In 2001, ICBC abandoned the idea of fixing windshield chips before they got too big and the entire windshield had to be replaced. 16 years later, Transportation Minister Todd Stone announce...

KAMLOOPS - The spring break debate in the Kamloops-Thompson school district is one of pure self-interest on the part of everyone involved. The district has vacillated between a two-week break, as is t...

KAMLOOPS - Stuart Wood School is a good place for a museum. It would have been a good place for other things, too, but a museum is within the community's reach when it comes to public spaces. There ar...

KAMLOOPS - I was disappointed but not surprised when Prime Minister Trudeau abandoned his plans for electoral reform. I've been let down before. The first time was in 2005 when a Citizens' Assembly wa...