Category Archives: Column
Walk-in clinics and a very 'chilling' first week of the year
KAMLOOPS - I don't want to hear one more person say, "It's positively balmy" every time the temperature creeps above minus 20. But there's nothing like a prolonged period of feeling as though you're l...
Jan 07, 2017
Dial down the pressure on Canadian goalies like Ingram
KAMLOOPS - In hindsight, I was maybe growing up too fast. I was 19 years old, and I was speaking in front of crowds of several hundred people on Sunday mornings, people who were very protective of the...
Jan 06, 2017
Legalize heroin and save lives
KAMLOOPS - Legal opiates are being used to adulterate illegal ones with tragic consequences. More than 800 British Columbians were killed in fentanyl-related overdoses last year. Many of them were ord...
Jan 05, 2017
Woe is me, whatever will happen to City council?
KAMLOOPS - I don't remember when Kamloops City council has been in such a state of functional uncertainty as it is now. There have been times in its history, to be sure, when council members could bar...
Jan 04, 2017
The mad frenzy of holiday flying
KAMLOOPS - Despite my obvious physical challenges, I would much prefer to fly at Christmas than drive. My theory is simple - I would rather be stranded at either end of the trip than in the middle. Th...
Jan 03, 2017
Trump way off base on United Nations
KAMLOOPS - Donald Trump, in his usual self-obsessed and vulgar way, decided to trash the UN in one of his Boxing Day tweets. Likely responding to the UN Security Council's Resolution 2334 concerning I...
Jan 03, 2017
It’s that promising time of the year
KAMLOOPS - Today, on the first day of the year, I had the sweet chance to hold an 11-day-old baby for a few minutes. It's a form of therapy you could say. Blissfully unaware of the hubbub around her, ...
Jan 02, 2017
As Bill said, much ado about nothing
KAMLOOPS - William Shakespeare was way ahead of his time. When he wrote one of his best comedies "Much Ado About Nothing" in the late 1500's, he didn't realize that the themes of the play would recur ...
Jan 01, 2017
Pearls of wisdom about life and death in 2016
KAMLOOPS - Mostly, 2016 sucked. The weather was awful, politics was a mess, and a lot of good people died. We all look at the past through our own filters. Here are some abbreviated pearls of wisdom, ...
Dec 31, 2016
Don't blame the calendar for spate of celebrity deaths
KAMLOOPS - When George Michael, Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds died this week, it all got to be a little much. This agonizing, this exaggerated lamentation that has reached a fever pitch, with one ...
Dec 30, 2016
