GINTA – Let’s never give up on making people’s lives better
IT’S 4 A.M. ON SATURDAY. I wake up thirsty and amble my way into the kitchen, fill a glass with water and drink it to the last drop. I return to bed and snuggle back [Continue]
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GINTA – What’s the best way to deal with a lack of empathy?
EVERY NOW AND THEN certain news makes me go silent. ‘How is that possible?’ is all I can think. Such was the case of the recent break-ins (yes plural, since it happened [Continue]
GINTA – The Remembrance Day files: it feels like family
‘In Flanders fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns [Continue]
GINTA – Let us always remember all that they did for us
MY GRANDFATHER was a WWII veteran. He died when I was nine, and so did the stories that he might have been inclined to share. I have old photos of him in uniform, and I know [Continue]
GINTA – Hope can reign supreme even under the most dire circumstances
I STARTED WRITING this column before Saturday. It was to be about the environmental mess we’re in, according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on [Continue]
GINTA – Restrictions on how we use marijuana have their place
OCTOBER 17 is just around the corner. Cannabis will be legal (and the province expects a hit from the first orders, predicted to come as a huge wave as many want to make [Continue]
GINTA – Giving thanks for living in Kamloops
THE FIRST MORNING of October was cold and drizzly and the tall withered grass was wet and just as cold. Dog and I went on our daily hike, heading up the steep trail as fast [Continue]
GINTA – Why are we so opposed to saving nature?
IT IS HARD TO TRY to change people’s minds even when the cause is more than worthy. Not when it comes to the material part though. There are marketing wizards out there [Continue]
GINTA – Stories of addiction – staying connected can help us turn the tide
I HAD BEEN at the Old Courthouse for many art exhibits and for a wedding once too. There is an air of sobriety that attaches itself to you as soon as you step inside, no [Continue]
GINTA – Stories of fall magic and why we should be part of them
FALL HAS A SPECIAL place in my heart. When I was a kid, until I left my parents’ home to go to university, as soon as the grapes would start to ripen, I’d go around the [Continue]
GINTA – Back to school should not mean a mountain of new debt
THERE WAS A TIME when back to school shopping meant purchasing a fair number of notebooks – one for each subject ideally, pencils, pens (a fountain pen too, but that was [Continue]
GINTA – Smoky skies or not, we can all agree on a few things
LAST WEEK, DURING a drive from Vancouver, we took a short break in Hope. It was almost 10 o’clock at night and the fire near Agassiz was raging, mountain aglow and the [Continue]
GINTA – When salmon are affected, we all are
SHORTLY AFTER we moved to Kamloops in August of 2012 we were told of a not-to-miss event unfolding every fall in the Adams river: the annual salmon run, peaking every four [Continue]
GINTA – Can we get used to using less water, less plastic and less food?
I SAW THE DRY yellow pastures and lawns as soon as we got close to the ferry terminal. As if nothing but rain was to bring any water to the parched land. This was Salt Spring [Continue]
