Columns

ROTHENBURGER – Frootloops City council makes its Christmas wish list

December 24, 2016 // 3 Comments

IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE, and the Frootloops Council is holding its AGM in the former Kamloops Daily Snooze building — they have to use it for something, after all — to tidy [Continue]

OBEE – We should all be very, very worried about fake news

December 22, 2016 // 4 Comments

Note: Last week I wrote a column about fake news. Someone has drawn my attention to a column on the same subject written by my friend and former colleague Dave Obee, who is [Continue]

COLLINS – Maybe it’s time to return Christmas to its roots as a Christian experience without all the extras

December 22, 2016 // 2 Comments

FOR CHRISTIANS, this week is one of the highlights of the calendar, the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. For non-Christians, a time for a few days of relaxing and [Continue]

FORSETH – BC Liberals’ homebuyer plan nothing more than crass politics

December 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

BILL TIELEMAN and the Tyee, and Ezra Levant’s The Rebel, are singing off the same song sheet?? Say it ain’t so! But it is so, and I was as shocked, as you likely [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Privacy rights and the death of history on the internet

December 22, 2016 // 1 Comment

CONVICTED KILLER Clifford Olson would probably have preferred that any account of his murder of eleven children and young people in the 1980s removed from the internet. Links [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Bringing home the ‘National Interest’ of pipelines

December 20, 2016 // 2 Comments

LIKE YOU, I’ve heard most of the Trans Mountain Pipeline arguments from both sides. I’ve watched and listen to the pre-sanitized sound bites from the politicians as [Continue]