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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]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – It was a dark and stormy night at the video mart

February 28, 2025 // 2 Comments

In the days before live-streaming TV, people fought over the best movies at the video rental store, or subscribed to “cable,” or bought huge satellite TV dishes that [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Somewhere, there must be some good news today

February 22, 2025 // 2 Comments

Every once in a while, somebody comes up with the idea that the media should stop reporting on so much bad news and focus more on the good stuff. This column from the [Continue]