Category Archives: Column

KAMLOOPS - Exactly four days ago my family and I moved from one area of Kamloops to another. Before packing up the house we selected the items we no longer use but are still in good condition and we t...

I have always considered myself to be an environmentalist. I know that some who have followed me for 40 years of One Man's Opinion might not get that, but I am. Although I was born in Vancouver, I gre...

Let's cut Peter Milobar some slack, shall we? He's been getting a lot of flak over his decision to run for the Kamloops-North Thompson BC Liberal nomination while he continues to sit as mayor. He gets...

KAMLOOPS - We’ve settled in now, haven’t we? We’ve all come to grips that Donald Trump is the next President of the United States? We’ve accepted that, for about 50 million Ame...

The government of B.C. has lost its battle with teachers and education will improve as a result. Education spending in B.C. is now the second lowest per student in Canada. It was an irrational battle....

There's an old joke that 82.6 percent of statistics are made up on the spot. Toss that one out at a dinner party or a coffee klatch and see how many get it. Truth is, stats have power. Talk about whet...

The American election is done; the votes counted, the outcome a fait de complete and the first serious Canadian casualty may be Kamloops. In particular, as America begins building walls and retreating...

It sure didn't take The Donald long to become a "regular" politician. After all the talk during the campaign about what he was going to do when he became president, Donald Trump has started out with s...

Nothing comes free these days. I suppose in reality nothing ever came without a price of some sort. But last week's Supreme Court of Canada decision to give B.C. Teachers’ bargaining rights over...

A LAUNDROMAT on Seymour Street was visited many years ago - maybe 25 or so - by a man who could have been anyone with some dirty socks and underwear that needed washing. He was an entertainer, passing...