Articles by Bill McQuarrie

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]

McQUARRIE – A sense of optimism from those who know something’s wrong

October 31, 2017 // 0 Comments

They say that we often grow up to become what we said we never would be. . . our parents. Maybe that is the problem with many Boomers these days, so it’s time, time for you [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Is economic decline the product of slow and steady leadership?

August 8, 2017 // 1 Comment

I SOMETIMES wonder if I’d have anything to write about on our local economy were it not for Ajax. What if 15 or so years ago, the City had set course on a different path? [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Follow the money in the flawed Kamloops recycling regime

June 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

DOES THE CITY of Kamloops, or should I say, Kamloops City Council actually believes in and support recycling, or are they in it just for the money? I ask, as it seems the [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Kamloops life, as seen through the lens

June 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

OVER THE past couple of weeks, I had an opportunity to photograph a number of events in Kamloops and in the process, reaffirmed that this is one heck of a place to live. You [Continue]

McQUARRIE – A memorandum to Christy Clark: It is time for you to go

June 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

Dear Christy: I WAS SORRY to hear of your loss and know how difficult these times can be. Rejection, disapproval and being avoided can be difficult things to deal with, [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Climate change, like a cancer, grows if we simply do nothing

May 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

LAST WEEK I wrote about the choices we have between denial or acceptance of climate change. In the comments that followed, those unable or unwilling to accept climate change [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Being a self-directed voter and getting the facts is easy

April 11, 2017 // 1 Comment

QUITE OFTEN, after writing a column about the foibles of a particular political party (more often than not the B.C. Liberals simply because they provide a wealth of column [Continue]