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JONESIE: Sorry Mayor Basran but I’m not buying it
OPINION I got a phone call, a text and an email last night telling me…
JONESIE: The one clear thing about the Vernon fire department sex scandal
OPINION Join me for another bowl of delicious news soup. *** As Penticton and Kamloops…
JONESIE: Why the SNC-Lavalin affair is indeed scandalous and ‘so Canadian’
OPINION I love this SNC-Lavalin scandal for many reasons. It’s so Canadian, especially the way…
JONESIE: The potential complications of success in housing the ‘homeless’
OPINION What a time we live in. Thanks to court rulings barring communities from banning…
JONESIE: You can’t criticize local news media
OPINION Well maybe this proves it: You can’t criticize local news around here. For a…
JONESIE: Why embezzling money seems all the rage
OPINION With all due respect to Walter White, when people break bad, they don’t make…
JONESIE: The blurred lines from a surprise guilty plea to murder
OPINION When Kelowna’s Jay Thomson pleaded guilty Monday to murdering his common-law partner in 2013,…
JONESIE: When lawyers attack!
OPINION Their marriage lasted 12 years and so far they’ve been in court for nine…
JONESIE: Thanks for nothing, judge
OPINION I want to tell you about this guy. A couple years ago, he was…
JONESIE: What the battle for Kelowna mayor is really all about
OPINION Kelowna residents have a choice for mayor but I think there's something else going…
JONESIE: The infighting and community fighting of the 2018 Civic Election
OPINION Things are getting ugly in the Vernon election. Candidates are sniping at each other…
JONESIE: I love Okanagan Mountain Park; thanks for letting it burn
OPINION Notes and observations from last week's wildfires in the Okanagan: *** I spend a…
JONESIE: The brewing revolt against ‘the homeless’, whatever that means
OPINION From Kamloops to downtown Vernon to Kelowna to Penticton — we have some serious…
JONESIE: You’re barking up the wrong end of the pipeline
OPINION When I was a kid growing up, it seemed like the concept of litter…
iNFOnews.ca: Our favourites, our best of 2017
This is the time of year, after we’ve looked back and reflected on our work,…
JONESIE: Why that Kelowna lawyer likely will never face criminal charges
OPINION We’ve been trying for a week to find someone to explain to us why…
JONESIE: Hey! People! Leave them teachers alone!
OPINION I fear for the future of the B.C. Teacher Regulations Branch under a GreeNDP…
JONESIE: Save your outrage for the rare criminal who truly deserves it — like Keith Wiens
OPINION I’ve seen a lot of terrible things in the last 20 years of covering…
JONESIE: Demand better of our police than this
OPINION We all might be missing a few important points about this bizarre traffic stop…
JONESIE: What do Christy Clark, floods, suicide and fireworks have in common? Absolutely nothing
OPINION A few random thoughts on the first Friday of summer: * Oh, Christy. I…
JONESIE: There’s a red wedding awaiting this Green-NDP marriage proposal
OPINION You’d think we would have learned by now in this province. First we believed…
JONESIE: Battling bureaucrats is a never-ending job
OPINION The first time I encountered an intractable, idiotic bureaucracy, I was 13 years old,…
JONESIE: Liberals making a good case they can’t be trusted for four more years
OPINION We vote in a provincial election May 9 and like me, you might want…
JONESIE: Kelowna won the battle but may have lost the water war
OPINION It’s hard to know if the City of Kelowna and Mayor Colin Basran truly…