Category Archives: Column

KAMLOOPS - IT'S CHRISTMAS EVE, and the Frootloops Council is holding its AGM in the former Kamloops Daily Snooze building - they have to use it for something, after all - to tidy up some important las...

KAMLOOPS - When Prime Minister Trudeau came to Vancouver this week to sell the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, did you see the crowds of protesters following him? Did you see the phal...

KAMLOOPS - Convicted killer Clifford Olson would probably have preferred that any account of his murder of eleven children and young people in the 1980s removed from the internet. Links such as this W...

KAMLOOPS - It's not hard to find fault with the BC Liberals on a lot of stuff but I think there's one thing on which we can all agree - their PR machine is first-rate. The slightest hint of anything t...

KAMLOOPS - For Christians, this week is one of the highlights of the calendar, the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. For non-Christians, a time for a few days of relaxing and celebrating, for ...

KAMLOOPS - Like you, I've heard most of the Trans Mountain pipeline arguments from both sides. I've watched and listen to the pre-sanitized sound bites from the politicians as well as corporate and en...

I spent almost ten minutes learning what hatchimals are. Not having cable television keeps us out of the loop, but we like it that way. It was strangely unsettling to learn about the silliness of hatc...

KAMLOOPS - I know I will be vilified for saying this, but I don't get the reasoning behind free childcare. A family wants to have children, and expects everyone to pay them for raising the kids? The N...

KAMLOOPS -There is no Santa Claus. We know that statement is a bald-faced lie. It is fake news. Newspaper editor Francis Pharcellus Church of the New York Sun fact-checked it in 1897 and concluded, "H...

KAMLOOPS - They say if you aren’t moving forward, the world is passing you by, and it’s never been more obvious than in the Kamloops downtown this year. Nearly two years ago, the city put ...