Category Archives: Column

KAMLOOPS - It’s natural that, in a public health emergency like the one BC faces with fentanyl, critics are looking for someone to blame. For many, Terry Lake is directly and solely in the cross...

KAMLOOPS - Our family held a garage sale a few weeks ago, and it went great. I mean, who doesn’t enjoy inviting a bunch of random strangers to your home, having them rifle through your stuff, of...

KAMLOOPS - Creep Catchers has now set up shop in Kamloops. If you have somehow managed to avoid the online furor, Creep Catchers is a vigilante organization that dupes potential child predators into m...

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...