Armchair Mayor

ALL MY LIFE, I’ve been skeptical about the existence of a supreme being. I was raised an atheist, but drifted toward agnosticism quite some time ago. I dabbled in studying [Continue]

CANADA, you’re not everything I’d like you to be. You’re flawed. Like an uncertain child, you stumble from time to time. You make poor choices now and then, but I’m [Continue]

THIS THING with Sears marks the end of an era, and the ending of eras is almost always sad. Fifty-nine stores closing, 2,900 jobs lost. It’s called [Continue]

MOST DAYS, I’m certain that the power of the press is much over-rated. The media get way too much credit for influencing what people think. For that reason, I try not to [Continue]

THERE WAS a marmot on the road one day as my son and I were driving home from town. It lay there in a small pool of blood, it’s little buck teeth sticking out, its eyes [Continue]

CITY COUNCILS come in cycles, and Kamloops is about to start a new one. Those cycles consist of long stretches of stability followed by dramatic change. The current stability [Continue]