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BEPPLE – Political will can take us from gas guzzlers to electric vehicles

July 3, 2019 // 3 Comments

I GREW UP WHEN KIDS bounced around in the back seats of cars because there were no seatbelts, let alone child car seats. Except for one time when the family car went flying [Continue]

EDITORIAL – The best thing about Canada Day was the absence of guilt

July 2, 2019 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. DO YOU KNOW WHAT I LIKED best about Canada Day yesterday? No guilt, just joy. Sure, there were the usual mandatory references in speeches to [Continue]

GINTA – If we mean all that we say today….

July 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

THE AIR SMELLS SWEET and sticky; it smells of soapberries, though they are mere green blobs right now, so all I smell is a promise; I like it, it has a tinge of humbleness to [Continue]

Canada Day festivities begin early and finish late

June 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

Canada Day festivities in Kamloops get underway at 7 a.m. at Riverside Park with the Lions pancake breakfast and finish up with the big fireworks display after dark. [Continue]

KNOX – Beyond politics, the grim reality of police cuts

June 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

IT WOULD BE TEMPTING to dismiss the latest glumness out of the Victoria Police Department as political posturing. Tempting, but incorrect. Don’t get me wrong. VicPD [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – You and I know less about Canada than we think we do

June 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

I CONSIDER MYSELF a good Canadian but, apparently, I’m not as good as I thought. The annual Historica.ca extreme trivia quiz is out. I barely passed it. Then I thought [Continue]