Armchair Archives

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Grad is exciting but not a licence for bad behaviour

April 25, 2025 // 0 Comments

The following column was published April 26, 1982 when the Armchair Mayor was serving as chair of the Kamloops School Board. (While it stated the class of ’62 at South [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Sunday shopping definitely a yes or no question

April 18, 2025 // 0 Comments

Sunday shopping hasn’t been an issue for a long time, but 40 years ago it was a hot topic. That, plus a bit about what we call our sports teams, and an anecdote about hopes [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Who’s the champ of word mangling at City Hall?

April 11, 2025 // 3 Comments

If you sometimes shake your head at the state of the English language, rest assured mangling our native tongue isn’t restricted to any particular segment of society, nor [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Remembering the beetle that tried to eat Kamloops

April 4, 2025 // 2 Comments

In this same month, in the year 2007, Kamloops and other B.C. communities were contending with the ravages of a hungry little beetle — the mountain pine beetle to be exact [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Civic parties have a history of failure in Kamloops

March 28, 2025 // 6 Comments

Spring is here and so are thoughts of civic political parties — Kamloops Citizens United is pondering entry into the civic election scene. In the spring of 1986, thoughts [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Columnists don’t see themselves as others see them

March 7, 2025 // 3 Comments

The following column was first published in The Kamloops News on Friday, March 4, 1977. SINCE I WROTE last week’s column I have learned that columnists don’t always turn [Continue]