Guest Column

SARAI – A New Year’s resolution to lobby for more effective crime-fighting

January 18, 2022 // 2 Comments

By BILL SARAI City councillor, Kamloops IN MY FIRST council column of the year, I would like to wish everyone a very happy and healthy new year. As most people start the year [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Make room for respectful, rational discussion on COVID

November 9, 2021 // 3 Comments

By BRONWEN SCOTT Guest Columnist MR. (DAVID) JOHNSON’S tedious diatribe unfairly chastises Coun. Walsh for things he hasn’t said, and repetitively argues a pointless [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – City’s pesticide practices need to be brought into 2021

September 28, 2021 // 8 Comments

By BRONWEN SCOTT Guest Columnist HEY CITY OF KAMLOOPS: The 1950s called — they want their pesticide policy back. And there’s a memo to remind you about your 2019 [Continue]

RUCKERT – Citizens’ assemblies a good way to decide on electoral system

September 27, 2021 // 11 Comments

By GISELA RUCKERT Guest Columnist MEL MAY CALL proportional representation an uninvited guest, but I’m laying out the welcome mat! He is absolutely correct that it’s not [Continue]

WALSH – We need to respect each other during these tense COVID times

September 19, 2021 // 1 Comment

By DENIS WALSH City Councillor, Kamloops AS A CITY COUNCILLOR, I have seen the extreme tensions, emotions and overt hostilities that have arisen in Kamloops in various ways [Continue]

GRAHAM – A response to those who criticize our school system

August 30, 2021 // 3 Comments

By PIERCE GRAHAM Guest Columnist AS A RETIRED secondary school English teacher and vice-principal, I have seldom passed up an opportunity to respond to publicly aired [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Public has chance for a say on changes to B.C. Police Act

August 18, 2021 // 0 Comments

By LYNNE STONIER-NEWMAN Guest Columnist Lynne Stonier-Newman here, author of Policing A Pioneer Province: The British Columbia Provincial Police 1858 – 1950. Writing [Continue]

GRAHAM – Health, wealth and common sense: the social contract revisited

August 9, 2021 // 1 Comment

By PIERCE GRAHAM Guest Columnist ONE OF THE FOUNDATIONS of civilized society is, surely, the notion of the common good, or the benefits of living other than alone in caves, [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – British Columbia at 150 years remains a work in progress

July 24, 2021 // 1 Comment

By DAVE OBEE Editor and Publisher, Victoria Times Colonist ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY years ago this past Tuesday, the British Colonist newspaper reported on a major event — our [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – A response to critics of our school system

June 26, 2021 // 1 Comment

By PIERCE GRAHAM Guest Columnist I HAVE SELDOM passed up an opportunity to respond to publicly aired criticisms of our school system, such as letters to the editor, FaceBook [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – ‘Cancel Culture’ or, ‘The Season of Sanctimony’

June 22, 2021 // 2 Comments

By PIERCE GRAHAM Guest Columnist AS A REGULAR READER of several newspapers, science-oriented magazines, and professional and letters-based publications, I occasionally think [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Suffrage, the ballot and democratic governments

June 15, 2021 // 2 Comments

By PIERCE GRAHAM Guest Columnist OVER THE LAST several hundred years the public demand for voting rights and the subsequent emergence of democratic governments has been a [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Catholic church must pay a heavy price for residential schools

May 31, 2021 // 7 Comments

By PIERCE GRAHAM A NUMBER OF RECENT Canadian newspapers have run headline stories confirming evidence of child abuse in the infamous residential school system. The worst of [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Democracy is threatened by the very people it serves

April 26, 2021 // 5 Comments

By PIERCE GRAHAM Kamloops PROBABLY SINCE its very beginning in early Greece, and later in the minds of the 18th century philosophers, the concept of democracy has been [Continue]