Category Archives: Column

SPRING IN B.C. IS A TIME OF REBIRTH AND RENEWAL, when we eagerly welcome blooming flowers, leafy canopies and warm temperatures after a long, grey winter. But for all its glories, spring in B.C. is al...

THERE SEEMS TO BE a misconception that the legitimacy of a vote is dependent on the number of people voting.During the PSAC strike there was consternation over the fact that only a third of the 100,00...

WITH ALL THE URBAN FIRES in Kamloops lately, and investigations into their causes, the possibility of arson has been much in the news. One of the frightening things about arson is that there's no defe...

BRACE YOURSELF, I'm about to say something nice about a politician. Not only that, it's a federal Conservative.You might want to mark this day in your diary.I'm talking about Frank Caputo. In his year...

YEAR AFTER YEAR, as summer approaches, certain communities become common household words: Cache Creek, Bonaparte, Merritt, Coldwater, Princeton, Stump Lake, Cherry Creek, the Coquihalla, and Okanagan ...

RECONCILIATION is a challenging path to follow. It remains unclear as to what it will ultimately look like. It seems to me, though, that until there's some sort of political structure to it, reconcili...

SO THE GOVERNMENT REDESIGNED the Canadian passport. The cover has a partial maple leaf and our crest. The inside pages have animals and nature scenes and other very anodyne images like children jumpin...

THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TALK recently about the effectiveness of banning drug use in city parks. There are those who feel limited drug use is okay, perhaps providing safe injection sites. Others say you...

WITH EACH PASSING DAY, the extent of Premier David Eby and the NDP's chaos and mismanagement at BC Housing grows deeper and more concerning.Part of the problem is the dizzying number of reports and au...

COMMUNICATION is a two-way street. It's an exchange, a receiving as well as giving of information.Kamloops City Hall sometimes forgets that. New proof came during a council meeting when the City's Com...