PETERS – As Interior Health COVID-19 cases rise, we need a pep talk
ALL RIGHT, RESIDENTS OF INTERIOR HEALTH: it’s time for a pep talk. It’s time for the coach to come in during the intermission and kick some garbage cans around. It’s [Continue]
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CHARBONNEAU – Donald Trump’s big-tent coalition of the deluded
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS ASSEMBLED a ragtag rabble of misfits into “Trump’s Army”. The disgraced president was able to unite marginalized groups in a way no other president [Continue]
BEPPLE – January rain storm a wakeup call that climate change is upon us
I AWOKE EARLY this morning to the sound of rain beating on my window and wind shaking the trees. The looming threat, climate change emergency, had awoken me. Like many, [Continue]
GINTA – Why we need to continue to talk about racism
WE ENDED THE PREVIOUS YEAR with a big sigh and dutifully wished each other a better 2021. Life coaches out there will tell you that positive thinking will get things done, [Continue]
KNOX – While raging against globe-trotters, take a look in the mirror
THE GOOD NEWS: it’s easier to fight off Victoria’s grey, damp winter chill when your blood is boiling. For those keeping score at home (and really, it’s hard to keep [Continue]
PETERS – Despite Dr. Henry’s words, we shouldn’t let vacationers off the hook
WHILE AN OUT-AND-PROUD WHITE NATIONALIST was putting his feet up on Nancy Pelosi’s desk this week, many Canadians of ostensibly better character were putting their feet up [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Young people have suffered much from the pandemic
YOUNG CANADIANS HAVE BEEN BLAMED for being irresponsible during the pandemic for going to parties and bars. But there’s more hype than truth to these accusations. The [Continue]
BEPPLE – Here’s to the little people who find small pleasures as COVID rages
FINDING JOY is innately human. Even in stressful times, people find joy. This holiday season, despite restrictions, people still found ways to enjoy the season. Zoom [Continue]
BEPPLE – COVID-19 isn’t the only pressing health issue in the Interior
IF 2020 HAS TAUGHT us anything, it is that health drives everything else. Without it, everything else grinds to a halt, individually, and collectively. It’s no surprise [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – The death and rebirth of sun at Christmas is solemn occasion
CHRISTMAS IS A TIME OF WONDER; a time for festivity and lights; a time for gathering together with friends and family in celebration. In the shelter of our warm houses, the [Continue]
BEPPLE – Vaccine brings light at the end of the tunnel but we’re not out of it yet
CHRISTMAS IS JUST a couple of days away, but in some ways, it has already arrived here in Kamloops. Yesterday (Dec. 22), the first person in Kamloops received a COVID-19 [Continue]
GINTA – Be the better and safer person this holiday season
DURING THE FIRST TWO WEEKENDS of December, the Kamloops RCMP took 17 impaired drivers off the road. That’s 17 potential disasters waiting to happen which were averted. [Continue]
KNOX – Birth, life and pandemic-inspired tech that shrinks the world
DURING THE 1994 Commonwealth Games, an Australian athlete became a father. Pat Scammell wasn’t around for the birth. The middle-distance runner was here in Victoria, [Continue]
PETERS – After this ‘annus horribilis’, there is reason for optimism about 2021
THREE-HUNDRED-FIFTY-THREE. We are currently on Day 353 of the Year of our Lord, 2020. For many of us, that means 353 days of misery and grief. Largely thanks to a global [Continue]
