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McQUARRIE – Oil companies: reminiscent of ’70s tobacco industry

June 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

A RECENT OPINION PIECE in the Financial Post by Gwyn Morgan, founding and now retired CEO of EnCana, tackles the oil/jobs/climate change debate from the perspective of one [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Where’s Jagmeet Singh in the controversy over G7?

June 12, 2018 // 1 Comment

AS A RESULT of the Trump debacle at last weekend’s G7 meeting, I have a number of questions and concerns and the first one is a bit like the “Where’s Waldo” game. [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Charlotte Whitton would not have been pleased with ‘Run’ forum

June 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

I’M GOING TO TAKE ON a subject this week that, for an opinion writer, is fraught with peril and affords an even higher degree of risk when said writer is male, white [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Climate change – I thought it was just a hoax

May 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

LAST SUMMER was a devastating year for the Cariboo, with nearly 20 wildfires merging into one and creating a firestorm on the Cariboo Plateau that had never been experienced [Continue]

McQUARRIE – City should correct mistake, buy back old railway station

May 22, 2018 // 3 Comments

WHAT BUILDING did the City sell to the private sector for $1 that every summer sees more than a 100,000 high-end visitors from around the world? Need another hint? It is one [Continue]

McQUARRIE – They’ve got us over a barrel – of oil, that is

May 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

HAVE YOU EVER wondered how to get the attention of gas retailers such as, Petro Can, Chevron or others? I have and if coffee shop conversations are any indicator, so too have [Continue]

McQUARRIE – We should be able to agree: fossil fuels are running out

May 1, 2018 // 1 Comment

I CRINGE with almost every conversation and social media post about the Kinder Morgan pipeline as inevitably someone, thinking they are quite witty and original, will say [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Social media users are fertile ground for data farmers

April 24, 2018 // 0 Comments

MANY OF YOU are probably not aware of this, but back in 2004, when Gmail was launched, Google would digitally scan your emails and based on what you had written, would [Continue]

McQUARRIE – When judging B.C.’s job prospects, consider the Atlantic cod

April 13, 2018 // 0 Comments

LET’S START with an almost irresistible opening paragraph, a paragraph about cod, Atlantic cod for that matter. And if that hasn’t got you all excited about this [Continue]

McQUARRIE – New president has a Knaak for moving chamber forward

April 3, 2018 // 3 Comments

I RECENTLY MET up with Joshua Knaak, the new president of the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce and for those who follow this column on a regular basis, you know that Mr. Knaak [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Mr. Dressup – It’s a tradition you don’t want to mess with

March 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

AS I WRITE this column, I realize it may cause some readers to wonder if I’ve gone to the dark side. They’ll point, while avoiding eye contact and suggest I’ve lost [Continue]

McQUARRIE – City’s words and actions don’t match up on pot dispensaries

March 21, 2018 // 1 Comment

WEEK OF RUMOURS, speculation, intrigue and drugs. Whoever thinks life in Kamloops is life in the slow lane has not been paying attention to the ever-unfolding story of [Continue]

McQUARRIE – A tale of two provinces

March 13, 2018 // 2 Comments

ALBERTA PREMIER RACHEL NOTLEY is again acting like the churlish premier she has become as she shifts from attacking B.C.’s wine industry to threatening all B.C. residents [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Thoughts, prayers and pixie dust

March 6, 2018 // 0 Comments

IF THOUGHTS and prayers or even pixie dust were real and viable solutions to the problems we face, then the world would be a far better place. There would have been no [Continue]