Category Archives: Column

DESPITE WHAT those in the healthcare bureaucracy would like to think, there's no way of fixing the walk-in clinic model. They can dress it up and put lipstick on it - as the newly appointed Interior H...

KAMLOOPS - If you’re about my age – and who isn’t, really – then you remember The Friendly Giant on the CBC. To kick off every episode, viewers were encouraged to ‘Look u...

A FEW WEEKS AGO, an Ontario woman (a known animal activist) gave water to a few pigs headed for the slaughterhouse. The pigs were in a truck and the water was given through slots and there was no big ...

GIVEN THE AMOUNT of media attention that the Canadian Taxpayers Federation gets, you would think that their members would be legion. But no, there are only five. While there are thousands of donors, t...

THE LAST TWO weeks have been tragic in many ways. If you've read the news and are perhaps waiting for something positive on the diesel spill near Bella Bella, you most likely know about the unacceptab...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops council has agreed to pump nearly $10 million into a new water intake for the North Thompson River. We already have a water intake on the South Thompson, of course, but this one wi...

I'M SOMETIMES asked, as I was last week, about my bias to the left of the political spectrum. Some may even be a bit confused, wondering how I can possibly write opinion pieces that don't seem to alig...

KAMLOOPS - If you are fine with working in the service industry, then you can work pretty much anywhere in the world. There will always be a need for bartenders and baristas and servers, because where...

KAMLOOPS - The first casualty, when war comes, is truth. It’s a quote from Hiram Johnson, a California senator, upon the outset of World War One. It’s clear that Republicans and Democrats ...

KAMLOOPS - I am fully willing to admit I have been a grump for the past couple of weeks when it comes to the royal visit. It’s not just around the history of the British empire, and who it crush...