C Poulsen
POULSEN: Monsanto is invading… plus love hormones and your dog
Minster of Lands Steve Thomson announced last week that the province will spend $1.7 million to combat invasive and troublesome plants. This includes eight projects in the Thompson-Okanagan, using a combination of management methods. It took a bit of coaxing to get the name of a herbicide that will be used, but the name was...
POULSEN: My inbox is very effing mad at me
Last week’s column brought a lot of angry responses, although this time it wasn’t anything I said. My email address, which was posted at the end of the column, was misused to send phishing emails to strangers. There were 153 reply emails to me from these strangers. Although many were marked as “undeliverable,” a lot...
POULSEN: About rape and the anguish for those wrongfully charged with it
Without taking too big a leap of imagination, I’m going to pretend to know what the people at Rolling Stone Magazine were thinking when they published an exclusive story about an alleged seven-man rape during a party at the University Of Virginia’s Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. They were thinking: “This is a terrible story so...
POULSEN: Why GMOs are as good as Okanagan apple pie
Recent approval of the Okanagan-backed Arctic apple is a far more exceptional scientific advance than most of us have realized. When they hit the market late next year, the Arctic varieties of Granny Smith and Golden Delicious will be virtually the only genetically modified fruit anywhere in a store in Canada and the U.S. We’re...
POULSEN: About waiting times at Valley Medical labs…
The person drawing my blood at Valley Medical Laboratory in West Kelowna smiles and asks: “How are you?” Answer: Much older than when I came in the door. We’ve all been there, let us count the hours. People have had their birthdays come and pass while sitting in a Valley Labs waiting room. The soon-to-be detainees at...
POULSEN: About those distracted driving statistics…
ICBC has a campaign on this month for the RCMP to target distracted drivers. They are even enlisting all the usual citizen do-gooders to peer through windshields. ICBC focuses on the misuse of mobile devices in its campaign promotions and backs up the enormity of the problem by stating that 88 people are killed yearly...