Guest Column

HAMSON – Five minutes to a better understanding of our governments

July 24, 2026 // 1 Comment

By NICHOLAS HAMSON Guest Columnist ONE OF THE BIGGEST misconceptions I have noticed is not that people dislike government. It is that many people simply do not know which [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – British Coumbia’s caribou and the economics of extinction

June 1, 2026 // 1 Comment

What a TRU student’s research reveals about old-growth forests, ecological tipping points, and the future of British Columbia’s caribou By PETER TSIGARIS Thompson Rivers [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Regional divides in politics are not necessarily a bad thing

May 13, 2026 // 1 Comment

By NICHOLAS HAMSON Guest Columnist FOR YEARS, politics in British Columbia followed a fairly familiar pattern. You had the BC Liberals, later rebranded as BC United, the BC [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Politics is complicated, but it is not out of reach

April 22, 2026 // 0 Comments

By NICHOLAS HAMSON Guest columnist F0R FAR TOO MANY, politics has a reputation of being one of two things: either overwhelming, or not worth paying attention to at all. I see [Continue]

STONIER-NEWMAN – Thank you to the caring – and despairing – seven OBGYNs

January 12, 2026 // 0 Comments

By LYNNE STONIER-NEWMAN ArmchairMayor.ca Contributor YOU HAVE BIRTHED our babies and grand-babies, nurtured mothers through the lengthy, and sometimes scary, [Continue]

STONIER-NEWMAN – If men gave birth, OB-GYN issue would be solved by now

October 31, 2025 // 4 Comments

By LYNNE STONIER-NEWMAN, Guest columnist IF MEN GAVE BIRTH, this would be fixed already! Those were the words on one big sign during the Maternity Matters Kamloops rally last [Continue]