Columns

Children learn from competing (with themselves first of all) when it’s done right

May 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

COLUMN — Daniela Ginta writes Fridays for The Armchair Mayor News. I remember being in Grade six and taking part in an inter-street tennis championship. What I cannot [Continue]

Disappearance of Beothuk not so mysterious

May 15, 2014 // 1 Comment

COLUMN — The Beothuk people of Newfoundland almost disappeared without a trace. The last known member of the tribe died on June 6, 1829. The only reason there is any [Continue]

Many questions, few answers, no shortage of opinions on plan for performing arts centre

May 13, 2014 // 3 Comments

Coun. Ken Christian writes From City Hall in rotation with other members of City council. By COUN. KEN CHRISTIAN /FROM CITY HALL (COLUMN) — Saturday night I found myself [Continue]

Lasagna garden layers reveal and conceal

May 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

COLUMN — Everyone has something they don’t really want people to know about them. Sometimes it’s a big deal, often times it’s not. For me, it’s [Continue]

Remembering — A son’s debt to his mother

May 11, 2014 // 4 Comments

THE CLIPPINGS FILE — This column was first published Saturday, Aug. 10, 1996 in The Kamloops Daily News. It is republished today on the occasion of Mother’s Day. By [Continue]

Parking weasels getting online justice

May 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

COLUMN — A guy I know was in a shopping mall parking lot one day when a truck whipped into a handicapped stall. No wheelchair decal in the window. No pass dangling from the [Continue]