Category Archives: Column
Douglas Lake fight could have major implications
KAMLOOPS - The radio host Paul Harvey used to have a feature called “This day’s news of most lasting significance.” It was always about some under-reported story that would loom much...
Jan 15, 2017
Who will preserve our journalistic integrity?
KAMLOOPS - I get an e-flyer regularly called Trends Journal. This small piece was one of several items offered in the first publication of the new year. It speaks volumes. It is reprinted by permissio...
Jan 15, 2017
Time crunch is coming on Ajax mine review
KAMLOOPS - Things are about to get interesting again on the Ajax front. Monday, the City's Industrial Tax Base Task Force will meet with KGHM to talk some more about a community compensation agreement...
Jan 14, 2017
Kick the bucket list
KAMLOOPS - Bucket lists have a grim quality about them. Once they're completed, what else is there to live for? They nag at you. Even if life gets in the way of completion, they sit impatiently to be ...
Jan 12, 2017
Cabinet shuffle could shift strategy on electoral reform
Most of the attention on yesterday's federal cabinet shuffle has been on the exit of Stphane Dion and John McCallum and the rise of Chrystia Freeland. Freeland, to be sure, is an up and comer, well-qu...
Jan 11, 2017
Who you trying to fool?
KAMLOOPS - For those who follow this column on a regular basis, you probably know that January is a traditional springboard for my semi-annual, "Who You Trying To Fool?" fees and taxes blog. So here w...
Jan 10, 2017
Employers face headaches over parental leave changes
KAMLOOPS - There are rumours the Liberal government is going to give serious consideration to implementing its campaign promise to extend parental leave from 12 to 18 months when children are born. It...
Jan 10, 2017
The stuff we need more of
Every now and then I come across a quote that resides in my thoughts for days. Such was the case of the words I later discovered to belong to David Orr, professor of environmental studies and politics...
Jan 09, 2017
Constant repetition of Trump's shortcomings has become boring
KAMLOOPS - Isn't it time we all stop whining about what a bad guy Donald Trump is? Every time his name is mentioned, it seems, we must remind each other that he is a name caller, a school yard bully, ...
Jan 09, 2017
2016: A year of momentous loss
KAMLOOPS - I have seen so many surveys over the past couple of weeks asking viewers, readers and listeners, depending on your medium of choice what the biggest loss was in 2016. Certainly last year wa...
Jan 08, 2017
