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C Poulsen

C Poulsen

  • Joined: January 01, 2023
  • Articles: 51

POULSEN: Pseudo wisdom attacks social media

"We teach people how to treat us." - famous psychologist, Dr. Phil. "Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit into the big jigsaw puzzle."- famous philosopher, Deepak Chopra. "Where friends become neighbours." - famous beermaker, Budweiser. "We generate the results in life we believe we...

POULSEN: Trump and Trudeau have something big in common

Last month, two Canadian national news outlets came up with entirely different headlines about the same Angus Reid poll: "Trump brand is mud in Canada," said one. "Significant number of Canadians agree with Donald Trump for a border ban on Muslims," said the other. How's that for clarity? The practitioners of the dark art of...

POULSEN: Cashless shoppers a challenge for Salvation Army campaign

I haven't carried cash for almost a year and it didn't poppy up as a problem until just last month when there was no script nor coin in my wallet for the Remembrance Day donation box. The march toward a cashless society is humbugging on-the-spot charitable causes to the point that some Salvation Army kettle...

POULSEN: Public art: the good, the bad and the money

There are two pictures of artwork on this page. One is a sculpture donated by the Westbank First Nation to Big White last week. It was done by native artist Smoker Marchand and depicts a grizzly bear, coyote and Ogopogo. The other is a sketch of what was to eventually come from Penticton artist Johann...

POULSEN: Governments want to squash fantasy sports games

The Fantasy Sports Trade Association reported in September that 56.8 million people in the U.S. and Canada have played online fantasy sports this year. Look at it this way: As you walk through the mall this Christmas season, pick out six people. One of them is playing Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS). That's three times as...

POULSEN: Kind hearts but no backbone from Canada, U.S.

You may recall a line from The Godfather when, with the mayhem beginning, Michael Corleone said to the mild-mannered family counsel Tom Hagen: "You are not a war-time consigliere, Tom. Things could get rough. . . " Things have gotten rough with ISIS. Way beyond just that, of course. In North America, our leaders speak...

POULSEN: Water as a cult religion

The story about the success of Kokanee spawning in Okanagan Lake this fall included some other interesting news: Okanagan Lake had been drawn down through the Penticton dam. With all the near-hysterical clamour about drought and impending doom for our water supply throughout last summer, how bad can things be when operators drain water from...

POULSEN: Crime and punishment in our politically correct schools

The outlaw Aliya Nigro - a.k.a. the Carrot Kid - is the latest victim of crime and punishment in a school system. In the annals of school kids run amok, 14-year-old Aliya may be the first student ever charged with criminal assault by a small vegetable, to wit, as her prosecutor might say: a weaponized...

POULSEN: The one big Harper lie that finally did it

Having voted Liberal for the first time in some 20 years, maybe my story has a bearing on what happened. Turning points. A good choice would be the Munk debate when Justin blew away his shadow of wussiness and beat Harper like a bum of the month in the ring. Harper was just not ready....

POULSEN: Polls smolls. The winner is…

The election polling business is in shambles. Not just because of cell phones - although that's part of it - but because of caller ID and an unwillingness of people to answer unknown callers. There are programs to reach cell numbers but even if someone answers, the pollster can't pin it to a riding. The...

POULSEN: Niqab a perilous accommodation to fanatics

Sensing a winner, Stephen Harper kept the niqab issue alive this week by saying he may try to ban them in the civil service. I'm of two minds about the niqab, so one half argued with the other half last week. Conclusion: Don't sweat the niqab, no big deal. I'll let a friend from the...

POULSEN: Will a niqab decide this election?

Stephen Harper may start wearing a niqab so he can't be seen licking his lips over the monstrous misjudgement the other two parties have made on the issue. Can something as insignificant as a woman wearing a niqab at the citizenship swearing-in turn the election? Why not. The voters have been harassed by incomprehensible financial...