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JOHNSON – Sooo… are we headed to the polls? Some clues from the past

February 11, 2021 // 1 Comment

By DAVID JOHNSON PEOPLE ARE WONDERING about a potential federal election call, that could come sooner than the Oct. 16, 2023 preordained date. Any chance they can get, [Continue]

JOHNSON – Quit your complaining and just pay the dog licence on time

February 5, 2021 // 3 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON Guest columnist A LITTLE ONLINE BIRDY tells me theres a hub bub going on about dog licensing, late fees and residents threatening to stop licensing their dog [Continue]

JOHNSON – The new Kamloops Performing Arts Centre proposal arrives

October 24, 2019 // 5 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON Step One: The business plan THE BUSINESS PLAN for the proposed Kamloops Performing Arts Centre was released at Tuesday’s City council meeting. The plan [Continue]

JOHNSON – How to traffic quieten, pedestrianize and create gridlock – 101

August 11, 2019 // 2 Comments

DENIS WALSH SEEMS TO BE on the Seymour Street one lane warpath, and seems to be putting this together as a High School 101 course on the consequences of faulty city design [Continue]

JOHNSON – Railcars are rolling, the pipeline build has already begun

June 23, 2019 // 5 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON TODAY I WATCHED as trucks stacked with the actual pipe, leave the storage yard on Mission Flats road in Kamloops, and head out towards the next construction [Continue]

JOHNSON – Let’s do the performing arts centre the right way this time

June 17, 2019 // 5 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON SO THE NEWE PROPOSAL for a Kamloops Performing Arts Centre has started up, and right off the bat, misinformation abounds and commenters online are running [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Learning to embrace economic futility and love taxes

March 24, 2019 // 1 Comment

By DAVID JOHNSON I ALREADY WROTE about the politicking surrounding the budget speech, Scheer, Wilson-Raybould, SNC Lavalin, desk slamming and filibusters, etc, etc, etc. [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – SNC, JWR, budget day, and all I want is my lasagna

March 23, 2019 // 4 Comments

Even though the Conservative filibuster is being explained to us as a political ploy or even rebellion, what it ended up being about was the Conservatives actually voting to [Continue]

JOHNSON – The Olympics show a gnarly change is happening in Canada

February 25, 2018 // 1 Comment

ANOTHER OLYMPICS is done, medals are distributed, anthems heard, tears shed and everyone is headed home. I’m a huge fan of the Olympics in general, and I actually prefer [Continue]

JOHNSON – Summer Jobs changes not about forcing people to accept abortion

January 27, 2018 // 4 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON Guest Columnist THERE SEEMS TO BE a massive amount of rhetoric with the new attestation requirements of the Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) Program. There is a lot [Continue]