Category Archives: Column

KAMLOOPS - It is at the same time both surprising and not surprising to hear Terry Lake won’t run in next spring’s election. Lake is energetic and ambitious, and well-thought of within his...

KAMLOOPS - It may have surprised some to hear this week that no one, not a single person, has been issued a ticket for using pesticides in contravention of the new City of Kamloops bylaw prohibiting t...

KAMLOOPS - When is an elected official not an elected official? It’s a trick question. The answer is ‘never.’ Let’s not get too deep here. When Barack Obama secretly calls out ...

KAMLOOPS - Does Kamloops have something in common with Donald Trump’s America? Maybe. Trump has his catchphrase – “Make America Great Again” – but we have our own. We see...

KAMLOOPS - I’ve spent the past couple of weeks in Disneyland and a series of airports. Thus, it’s not particularly out of the ordinary for me to see Pokemon Go players walking around like ...

KAMLOOPS - Last week brought us one of those stories that would be absolutely laughable to visitors looking at Kamloops from anywhere else. Hundreds and hundreds of people went all the way out to an o...

KAMLOOPS - There are so many reasons to talk about what happened in Orlando last weekend. So many aspects to the story to explore. We could talk about the violent homophobia that seemed to play into t...

KAMLOOPS - MoneySense is basically trolling us at this point. The magazine known best – or known only – for its rankings of the best places to live in Canada has released this year’s...

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops RCMP detachment was very proud this week to show off the spoils of its most recent gang enforcement activities in this city. Officers seized guns and cash, and a lot of drugs. ...

KAMLOOPS - On the surface, it seems like the news this week that Gord Downie has terminal brain cancer is just the latest in a long line of, shall we say, tragic news for the music industry this year....