IF YOU WEREN’T ALREADY AFRAID of where our healthcare system is heading, you should be now. More and more groups are issuing calls of alarm. We’ve already heard [Continue]
I THINK IF WE TOOK all the hot air being generated by people discussing solutions to our problems, we would be able to provide heat for the world without having to extract [Continue]
DID WE SERIOUSLY have to pay for a survey to tell us that we feel less safe than we did before the pandemic? Really? I don’t know many people who feel comfortable out and [Continue]
I READ AN INTERESTING ARTICLE RECENTLY, in which a woman was upset when someone answered her question by saying “Yes Ma’am”. She was very offended and suggested the [Continue]
ACTUALLY, the title could well say “water preservation” is critical in these modern times. The Nature Conservancy of Canada says Canada has the third-most fresh water of [Continue]
A 500-PAGE REPORT (LAST) WEEK by Human Rights Commissioner Kasari Govender is a document designed as a pathway to reducing hate-related crime. The report, entitled From Hate [Continue]
KAMLOOPS COUNCIL WANTED TO BE BOLD. And at this week’s meeting of the Committee of the Whole, they took some very bold steps. The committee supported a number of major [Continue]
TOMORROW NIGHT (Feb. 6), the Board of Education for School District 73 jumps into the best-seller, The Saga of RHJ. The mayor, who has already jumped into the mud with [Continue]
WE HAVE BEEN SO AFRAID to tackle climate change issues we’ve let things get to a crisis stage. One of the worst examples involves our use of plastics. Decades ago, we [Continue]
IT WAS IRONIC that I was just about finished reading a book on concussions in the NHL when I got the news notification that Gino Odjick had passed away at 52. He died of a [Continue]
AS A NEWSMAN, controversy and infighting provide great stories. Always something to talk about and you can always find some angle to chase on a slow news day. But as a [Continue]
ASIDE FROM SO MANY issues facing us in the year ahead, climate change must be kept near the top of the list. So many of us see the effects of this change, but because [Continue]
I HAVE A BIG Christmas wish. I don’t know if Santa can fulfil it or not. My one wish this Christmas is that I never have to see another six hours of drivel about Meghan and [Continue]
I THOUGHT B.C. PREMIER DAVID EBY was being dictatorial in his plans to force municipalities to bend to the province in dealing with building affordable housing, absolving [Continue]