Opinion

PARKER: Nothing is solved by glitter alone
On my fifth birthday I managed to convince my mother to host a neighbourhood-wide masquerade party in my honour. If this request of mine doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about me, it’s because you’re a passive reader. To spare you the humiliation, though, I’ll tell you the full story as a means...

A high school book with sex, alcohol, drug use: Ban it?
IS IT IRONY? STUDENTS HAVE THEIR SAY KAMLOOPS — After a Kamloops father went public this week about his efforts to get a book banned from high school reading assignments, we took the conversation back to some South Kamloops Secondary school students. Dean Audet is pushing School District 73 and its partners to remove The...

Just what does a raptor wrangler do?
KELOWNA – There are few things less appealing to summer tourists than a park or beach covered in bird feces. An adult Canada goose will eat more than a kilogram of grass and damage 1.5 square meters of parkland every day. Multiply that by thousands and you will have an idea of how serious the...