McGARVEY – Tax reforms may be a turning point in Liberal fortunes
IT ALL SEEMED perfectly reasonable: tax the low hanging fruit of “fat cat” professional corporations to fund programs for the poor. Who could object to that? Turns out [Continue]
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GINTA – Why we ought to take another look at our water consumption habits
IF YOUR SUMMER fun includes going to the beach, on the shores of either the South or North Thompson Rivers, you likely noticed the receding water line over the last few [Continue]
BEING MAYOR – Life at City Hall, Chapter 7 – ‘A desire for Change’
This is the seventh in a series on my experiences as the mayor of Kamloops from 1999 to 2005. By MEL ROTHENBURGER Chapter 7 — ‘A Desire For Change’ “Well, so much [Continue]
BY-ELECTION – Councillor candidate Leslie Lax: ‘a progressive approach’
ArmchairMayor.ca accepts submissions from candidates for the mayoralty and two City council seats in the Sept. 30 Kamloops civic election. The following is from Leslie Lax, a [Continue]
NEWSTROM – A story about a Clipper canoe and the River Goddess too
SOMETIMES RISK is so exciting you could just eat it. Then you do. You eat it for breakfast. That’s how I felt looking down at a $3,000 canoe stranded in the rapids of [Continue]
KNOX – Salt Spring Island: ‘A difference of opinion surrounded by water’
YEARS AGO, a Salt Spring resident described a typically testy public meeting where an angry audience member leaped up to point an accusing finger at an elected official: [Continue]
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