Armchair Archives

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Doctors’ closed-door strategy has its flaws

March 10, 2023 // 1 Comment

Concerns over the healthcare system aren’t new. Twenty-five years ago, B.C.’s doctors took a day off over a money issue. This column was originally published on Saturday, [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – In quest of the magic formula of being positive

March 3, 2023 // 0 Comments

I foolishly neglected to mark the date on this clipping but, given the references to Expo, it was written in 1986. It puts the lie to those who claim I have gotten grouchy [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Announcing the Bad News Awards for 1975

February 24, 2023 // 0 Comments

For this week’s edition of Armchair Archives, we go back to 1976. The following column was published in The Kamloops News on Jan. 30, 1976, not long after I returned to [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – It’s not the politicians who run the governments

February 17, 2023 // 2 Comments

The following column was published in The Kamloops Daily News on Jan. 7, 1983. THERE’S A MISTAKEN IMPRESSION among many members of the general public that Kamloops [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – And so then I said, ‘Martin, I love your work’

February 10, 2023 // 0 Comments

Kamloops folks are used to seeing film productions in town nowadays but, back in 1989, it was a new and exciting thing. That was the year Martin and Charlie Sheen were in [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – When Christ wants to be anonymous, something is wrong

February 3, 2023 // 0 Comments

A man dressed as Jesus Christ was arrested for unknown reasons (although some reports say he spent the night in the drunk tank) at a heavy metal concert in Penticton last [Continue]