PETERS – For the future of Canada, we must overcome our fear of change
(Image: CFJC Today)
A FEW WEEKS AGO, our newsroom took a phone call from a gentleman who was hopping mad.
The object of his ire? The Real Canadian Superstore.
The man was complaining that Superstore had changed its layout, and was dead-set on convincing a reporter to do a story.
Never mind there may have been perfectly rational and understandable reasons for the changes; things were different in his grocery store and that’s bad.
James Peters is the radio anchor at CFJC, coming to Kamloops in 2006. He anchors the afternoon news on B-100 and 98.3 CIFM, and contributes weekly editorials to the CFJC Evening News. He tweets regularly @Jamloops.
Change means going against the grain, ruffling feathers, dislodging ingrained beliefs and power structures. Change means getting out of the comfort zone. A shrewd and erudite group could do it but our fleeting and superficial society is definitely incapable of such feat, IMHO.