Category Archives: Column
Council should bring a reporter on mining town tour
KAMLOOPS - Well this is getting a little bit silly. There are reports this week that, despite Kamloops council having approved a delegation to travel east to visit Malartic, Quebec and Timmins, Ontari...
Apr 04, 2016
Celebrating what we haven't achieved
KAMLOOPS - I’m guessing Norm MacDonald doesn’t like St. Patrick’s Day. You see, the comedian has a theory that a person’s heritage, regardless of what that heritage is, is noth...
Mar 18, 2016
All Kamloops taxpayers subsidize Westsyde pool
KAMLOOPS - There really is no place for sentimentality in planning city services and amenities. No place for populism, or for pandering. Amenities have to be planned using cold logic, informed by acco...
Mar 11, 2016
Trump supporters not that unlike supporters of Obama, Trudeau
KAMLOOPS - There is near consensus here in Canada that Donald Trump is a deplorable human being whose victory in November’s presidential election would be a disastrous geopolitical development. ...
Mar 04, 2016
Trudeau should take his focus off spending
KAMLOOPS - Let’s be clear. There was no way any of the three potential governments we could have elected last year would have delivered good economic news this week. The Liberals said they would...
Feb 26, 2016
If the LNG dream is fading, that's not the worst thing
KAMLOOPS - The dream of a liquefied natural gas-funded future for BC is clearly as faded as its ever been right now. Want a perfect piece of evidence? In speaking with Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd...
Feb 19, 2016
Every option should be on the table to stop ISIS
KAMLOOPS - The federal government’s move on the mission in the Middle East is one of the frustrations of partisan politics. Both the governing Liberals and the opposition Conservatives have half...
Feb 12, 2016
The ABCs of Hockey Day in Canada
After all is said and done, Kamloops will be happy to have been put in the spotlight this week. Being in the spotlight is a gift given to us from Sportsnet, ScotiaBank and the organizers of Hockey Day...
Feb 05, 2016
Lack of transparency equals lack of respect from RCMP
KAMLOOPS - On March 22, 2011, Archie LePretre was killed by a couple of wannabe gangsters while playing basketball at Stuart Wood Elementary School in downtown Kamloops. The next day, before any arres...
Jan 29, 2016
Time to get off the fence on Ajax
The information is now out there. It’s what we’ve been waiting for in Kamloops for years now: the environmental application made by KGHM-Ajax. Now is time for a lot of people who have been...
Jan 22, 2016
