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EDITORIAL – Pride parade was a truly heart-warming community event

August 26, 2019 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A FEW COMMENTS about yesterday’s annual Kamloops Pride Parade. Most importantly, it was a true community event. Corporations, unions, [Continue]

EDUCATION – Why cursive handwriting needs to make a comeback in school

August 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

By HETTY ROESSINGH University of Calgary TEACHING CONNECTED-STYLE handwriting, otherwise known as cursive handwriting, has fallen out of fashion on many school curricula. [Continue]

KNOX – Even a 77-year-old must produce ID to get a beer at a festival

August 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

BILL CAMPBELL WAS STROLLING ALONG the Esquimalt Lagoon when he spotted the beer truck. Part of Colwood’s annual Eats and Beats at the Beach festival, it emerged out of the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Get used to being watched while you shop

August 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

In this age of seemingly constant surveillance, we’re even being recorded at the self-service checkout I WALKED INTO WALMART the other day. As I passed the greeter at [Continue]

POLITICS – Would Trump concede in 2020? A history lesson from 1800

August 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

By SHIRA LURIE University of Toronto As primary season heats up in the United States, the Democrats are anxiously debating the best path to unseat Donald Trump in 2020. But [Continue]

PETERS – Let’s stop calling Kamloops Pride a ‘special interest group’

August 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

WHEN THE IDEA OF FUNDING A RAINBOW CROSSWALK came forward to Kamloops council a couple of weeks back, it was unanimously supported by those around the table. But before they [Continue]