Articles by Bill McQuarrie

McQUARRIE – Mr. Dressup – It’s a tradition you don’t want to mess with

March 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

AS I WRITE this column, I realize it may cause some readers to wonder if I’ve gone to the dark side. They’ll point, while avoiding eye contact and suggest I’ve lost [Continue]

McQUARRIE – A tale of two provinces

March 13, 2018 // 2 Comments

ALBERTA PREMIER RACHEL NOTLEY is again acting like the churlish premier she has become as she shifts from attacking B.C.’s wine industry to threatening all B.C. residents [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Thoughts, prayers and pixie dust

March 6, 2018 // 0 Comments

IF THOUGHTS and prayers or even pixie dust were real and viable solutions to the problems we face, then the world would be a far better place. There would have been no [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Chamber should take closer look before condemning budget

February 27, 2018 // 1 Comment

THE KAMLOOPS CHAMBER of Commerce decried the new BC budget of last week with an eye popping, over the top comment suggesting, “…businesses of all sizes – from [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Are politicians at any level working for the public?

February 20, 2018 // 1 Comment

AM I BEING an irrational cynic when I say that with few exceptions, I can’t think of a politician, at any level of government, that I trust or know with certainty they [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Bemused and befuddled in the Twilight Zone of local politics

February 13, 2018 // 1 Comment

POLITICIANS! There are weeks when the only thing you can do is give your head a shake and wonder in bemused befuddlement, if we have indeed entered the Twilight Zone of [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Teachers took wrong course on high school art vandalism

February 6, 2018 // 1 Comment

OKAY CLASS, settle down now and let’s get on with our lesson on permissive vandalism and how the rule of law and common sense can be suspended for those promoting social [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Creative thinking a good way to get shut down by City council

January 30, 2018 // 3 Comments

THINGS GOT a bit testy at City Hall last Tuesday when Councillor Cavers introduced his motion asking staff to review and have a look at best practices when it came to snow [Continue]

McQUARRIE – More Father Knows Best – The back door to legislating morality

January 23, 2018 // 1 Comment

LAST WEEK’S column on the perils of pot and how Father Knows Best, drew a number of responses but one in particular caught my eye. In this case, the reader felt City [Continue]

McQUARRIE – When it comes to city business bylaws, father knows best

January 16, 2018 // 1 Comment

HAVE YOU EVER wondered if our local government is stuck in the late 1950s sitcom world of Father Knows Best? A world more familiar to their parents and grandparents and a [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Using minimum wage poverty as a tool for business success

January 9, 2018 // 1 Comment

WITH ONTARIO having increased the minimum wage to $14 and Alberta making similar changes, I thought it an appropriate time to write of what for some, is a belief in and [Continue]

McQUARRIE – A good time for Kamloops to start getting serious about jobs

January 2, 2018 // 0 Comments

WITH THE ARRIVAL of the New Year and Ajax now relegated to the news highlight reels of 2017, I can think of no better time for Kamloops to start getting serious about jobs [Continue]

McQUARRIE – T’was the night before Christmas and all through City Hall

December 19, 2017 // 1 Comment

WITH MY APOLOGIES to Clement Clarke Moore, I give you my Kamloops version of his poem, The Night Before Christmas. And what better way to take you to Christmas Eve in [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Comedy of errors surrounds parking at Royal Inland

November 21, 2017 // 1 Comment

I NEVER THOUGHT I’d be writing about this again. The entire situation has been a comedy of errors. Yet once again, here I am talking about the ongoing saga of parking [Continue]