Category Archives: Column
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
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
