McQUARRIE – Wish I could but I’m just too busy
More fictional musings from the keyboard of former Kamloops resident Bill McQuarrie. SIMON WAITED, waited with hands in his pockets and back to the wind driven rain. Waited [Continue]
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McQUARRIE – The Dragon Slayer
Editor’s Note: The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is strictly coincidental. No politicians were harmed in the writing of [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Two years later, are our City councillors doers or wafflers?
TWO YEARS AGO, voters had the opportunity to elect who they thought would be best suited to represent them on City council. Decisions were made on who might be up for the [Continue]
McQUARRIE – We’re all socialists at some point, whether or not we admit it
I HEAR IT in coffee shops, at town hall meetings and across social media. It’s the “back in my day” Archie Bunker styled conversation that happens whenever government [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Those inhabitants of the Deep State are getting it all wrong
PORTRAYED AS A SECRETIVE and malevolent organization, the so-called Deep State is, in truth, nothing more than a drama queen’s heaven; a digital nirvana where the art of [Continue]
McQUARRIE – 99 per cent of police officers are good. Or are they?
WHEN TALKING ABOUT POLICING and police officers in B.C., I hear many speak up in defence of their community police force. They claim that 99 per cent of their officers are [Continue]
McQUARRIE – An act of quiet kindness that would make the most cynical smile
SOMETIMES WHEN I write these columns, I feel like the Grinch Who Stole Christmas. The stories are often about humans doing the wrong thing for the wrong reason. They are the [Continue]
McQUARRIE – The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse
GIVEN HOW WELL 2020 has gone this year, I thought it might be a good time to again ask: Who were those Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? I’m also wondering if maybe, just [Continue]
McQUARRIE – We’ll need more pizzerias if we get serious about conspiracies
IT STARTED WITH what until recently was a fringe group; a group that inhabited that questionable and murky online world that often seems unable to distinguish reality from [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Hide your bathroom scale and watch weight problems disappear
I HAVE A FEELING that the number of bathroom scales along with their daily use in Canada is the primary reason why so many of us are overweight. We have too many bathroom [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Come on in to the Covid Cafe and check out today’s special
THANK YOU FOR STOPPING BY the Covid Cafe, where your rights to personal choice extend well beyond our well thought out and delicious menu. As I take you to your table, [Continue]
McQUARRIE – ‘I’m not a racist but’ is an all-too familiar phrase
JUST WHEN YOU THINK things might be getting better, a post like this is shared on local social media saying: “Got a speeding ticket near a Dennys. Do I burn down the [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Boomers – we didn’t defeat the man, we became the man
I AM OLD ENOUGH to have watched and been inspired by President Kennedy as he explained in a 1963 speech why desegregation of schools and universities in Alabama was [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Mass murder in the name of personal freedom
IS ONE’S SELF-IMAGE, at least for some, so fragile these days that even a simple act of kindness and concern towards someone other than themselves is now seen as an [Continue]
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