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ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – B.C. Day sure seemed like a good idea at the time

August 2, 2019 // 1 Comment

The following column was first posted on Aug. 3, 2014. THIS IS THE B.C. DAY long weekend. It’s B.C. Day on Monday, though nobody knows why. Mostly, it seemed like a good [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – The stuff the school board talks about in secret

March 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

This column was originally published in the Kamloops News on March 1, 1978: THIS WEEK WAS THE FIRST in which local news media received in advance the background [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – The loneliness of the civic-election candidate

October 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

Campaigning is stressful, and there’s no more stressful time than the home stretch. At the same time, there’s a sort of relief that it will soon be over. I wrote [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Why Good Samaritans are an endangered breed

October 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

This column was originally posed on Oct. 1, 2010. IF YOU SAW SOMEONE in obvious distress, would you stop to help? Or would you pass by? Many people would stop. Most [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – History shows Kamloops voters don’t like big changes

September 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

The following excerpt is from a column published Nov. 15, 2008 in The Kamloops Daily News. Ten years later, the situation now isn’t an exact comparison to what it was [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – 10 years ago, the Coquihalla cash cow was put to pasture

September 7, 2018 // 1 Comment

Hard to believe it’s been 10 years since tolls were taken off the Coquihalla. Here’s what I wrote about it on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008 in the Kamloops Daily News [Continue]