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COMPOST CHRONICLES – Chapter 2: The business model and compostable bags

October 18, 2021 // 4 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON ArmchairMayor.ca Contributor This is the next installment of the ongoing Chronical of the Kamloops City Composting Pilot Project. This year I will be sharing [Continue]

JOHNSON – Mountain/Snowflake or M&S tires, what are you running?

October 6, 2021 // 2 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON Columnist, ArmchairMayor.ca AS OF OCT. 1, snow tires are required on B.C. highways. That includes two rated levels of tires, the mountain/snowflake symbol [Continue]

COMPOST CHRONICLES – Chapter 1, do’s and don’t’s of City’s pilot project

September 29, 2021 // 8 Comments

Columnist David Johnson begins a new series of articles today. He explains: Our home was chosen as being on a Kamloops City Composting Pilot Project pick-up route, so this [Continue]

JOHNSON – Michaels fly home; China’s judicial system exposed as a sham

September 25, 2021 // 2 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON Guest Columnist IT ALL HAPPENED very quickly. On Friday (Sept. 24, 2021), Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor found themselves in the [Continue]

JOHNSON – Another Liberal minority in Ottawa; how long will it last?

September 21, 2021 // 0 Comments

WELL NOW, wasn’t that something? … not. Liberals handily, pretty much managed to copy its pre-election seat count, plus one seat, and in the reshuffle Conservatives lost [Continue]

JOHNSON – English federal leaders debate…. or just an evening of satire

September 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON I was going to write seriously about the English Leaders debate, but given the debate format we live under now, I couldn’t get past the reality that … [Continue]

JOHNSON – Is Canada Conservatism being rethunk entirely this time?

September 7, 2021 // 1 Comment

By DAVID JOHNSON IT’S STARTING TO LOOK like Erin O’Toole’s run for PM is a test for a certain theory of Canadian conservatism; water it down, wins the horse race. [Continue]

JOHNSON – Doing away with snap elections would be almost impossible

August 17, 2021 // 2 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON SO HERE WE ARE, a federal election called, a Governor General visit done, we vote again on Sept 20. Lovely. At a time where the BC Wildfire Service becomes [Continue]

JOHNSON – Juniper needs a road alright, but where should it go?

July 8, 2021 // 2 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON IT’S THE NIGHT OF THE FIRE, and a bunch of people were trying to open the locked gate off the end of west Qu’Appelle. In the end they managed. [Continue]

JOHNSON – Composting works but apparently we shouldn’t worry about cost

June 29, 2021 // 4 Comments

THE CITY OF KAMLOOPS begins its pilot test of the curbside organic waste collection program in September. Marcia Dick, the city’s solid waste services analyst, updated [Continue]

JOHNSON – TRU Law admissions process needs fixing

June 24, 2021 // 3 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON SO, WE HEAR this week that 42 potential law students who filed applications with and were actually accepted to Thompson Rivers University’s law program [Continue]

JOHNSON – Residential school – What matters now is how we own this

June 4, 2021 // 2 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, Kamloops has had brief moments in the Canadian limelight for one thing or another, but because of last year’s Snowbird crash and [Continue]

JOHNSON – We buy what we can locally, Mr. Walsh, but often have to go online

March 29, 2021 // 0 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON RECENTLY ON THIS same media outlet, Coun. Denis Walsh dropped the conversation of buying local as opposed to buying online. Obviously, all Kamloopians will [Continue]

JOHNSON – The key to new dress code for schools is removing the ambiguity

March 19, 2021 // 0 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON ON FEBRUARY 23, Grade 12 student Karis Wilson was sent home from school on a dress code violation, having been told her outfit was not appropriate for [Continue]