CHARBONNEAU – Junk publishers threaten what we know
MOST OF WHAT we know is not from our day-to-day experience. If I were to trust my intuition, I would believe that the Earth is flat. I depend on others who have studied our [Continue]
Local Voices
BEPPLE – Kamloops zoning bylaws encourage waste of housing space
EVERY DAY, there’s another story on affordable housing. There was the report this week that a worker in Vancouver needs to earn $35/hour to afford the rent of an average [Continue]
GINTA – Kamloops must do better at accessibility for visually impaired
DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT YOU WERE DOING on the morning of May 16 at 7:45 or so? Todd Harding does. He was walking downtown to his work with his guide dog, Luke. The pair stopped [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Imagine if a government told you exactly what it is spending
IMAGINE, IF JUST FOR A MOMENT, if just for a moment, an op/ed writer beginning a column with a headline that states, Local Politicians Get It Right. Impossible you would [Continue]
PETERS – Apollo astronauts embodied human instinct for exploration
ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE APOLLO 11 mission that saw humans land on the moon for the first time, it is appropriate that we ask the question, what are we doing in space? [Continue]
BEPPLE – Time for some fresh faces on our currency; who should it be?
THIS WEEK’S ANNOUNCEMENT by Britain that their £50 note would bear the likeness of Alan Turing was heartening for so many reasons. Turing was an extraordinary [Continue]
