Politics

Some of the answers, or non-answers, provided by candidates at election forums make me squirm — they are so vacuous or based on not the slightest fundamental understanding [Continue]

For those who haven’t seen them for themselves, here are some of the signs I wrote about a few days ago. The Messmer Mess, as you can see, takes some solid fundamentals [Continue]

Being a member of City council is never easy, but it seldom gets dull. Today, at its weekly meeting, council will deal with a road closure, a liquor licence application, [Continue]

Saturday’s election forum at the Kamloops Farmers’ Market was more interesting for its questions than for the answers. Most but not all of the candidates in the [Continue]

There should be a law against bad election signs. Not all of them — just bad ones, which would eliminate most of the clutter of the current civic-election campaign. [Continue]

You have to be humble to be mayor. Peter Milobar has been humbled twice in the past couple of weeks, on both occasions because he forgot that, sometimes, leadership means you [Continue]