JOHNSON – Halloween fireworks and hooliganism – only in B.C.
By DAVID JOHNSON Contributor, ArmchairMayor.ca DURING THIS PAST Halloween, I stumbled across a written line somewhere that floored me, and from there I began a deep dive [Continue]
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JOHNSON – Denis Walsh ‘cherry picks’ from CDC report to our detriment
By DAVID JOHNSON Contributor, ArmchairMayor.ca LET’S LOOK at statements made by Coun. Denis Walsh, as reported in the Armchair Mayor article dated Nov. 1, and from his [Continue]
JOHNSON – Supreme Court says cities are liable for poor snow clearing
By DAVID JOHNSON Contributor, ArmchairMayor.ca THE SUPREME COURT of Canada has unanimously ruled that municipal governments are not immune from snow removal negligence and [Continue]
COMPOST CHRONICLES – Chapter 2: The business model and compostable bags
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?
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
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
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?
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
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?
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
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?
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
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
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]
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