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LOEWEN: An old harmonica at Christmas
As a kid growing up in Winnipeg and Waterloo, it didn’t matter what the season was. When my Dad’s mania for wandering came upon him (and it was pretty much daily), it was usually his youngest who was called upon to accompany him. Often enough I was able to finagle my way out of these...
PARKER: Are manicures the gateway to plastic surgery?
Yesterday, my favorite self-acceptance guru announced to the Internet that for Christmas she gave herself a boob job. I got the notification on my phone immediately after she posted her explanatory blog and I proceeded to ignore my husband throughout brunch as I read — with great care, interest and (I’ll admit) judgment — about...
BEPPLE: New refugees will help Kamloops thrive
My father’s family comes from Romania where they had been farmers. Between 1914 and 1929, my grandfather was conscripted and fought in two wars. First in First World War, and then a subsequent war. He was a prisoner of war in one of them. In the First World War alone, almost 10 per cent of...
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...
LOEWEN: The World was never more beautiful
Yesterday marked the thirty-fifth anniversary of the gunning down of my childhood hero, John Lennon, a man I commemorated in these pages at this time just last year. It was 1980 when Lennon was murdered. I was a sixteen-year-old Winnipeg high school student with a part-time job at a local record store. December 8th was...
ANDERSON: White privilege, gullibility and true racism
There have always been charlatans trotting about on the fringes of believability making loads of money off gullible people. Deepak Chopra has been accused of being one such individual, misusing scientific terms with wild abandon and tossing out alleged profundities that make no sense at all, claiming for example that "consciousness may exist in photons,...
PARKER: Blessed to be stressed, but actually
There is an annoying post floating around on Pinterest that, for whatever reason, I like each time it comes into my vision. On a plethora of holiday colored backgrounds — most likely one dollar Canva stock — floats the following quote: too blessed to be stressed. The words usually swirl around each other in beginner’s...
HELSTON: The outlaws in ‘Weed Country’ aren’t going quietly
It might have been novel five years ago in Vernon to see a medical marijuana dispensary, but these days you can find them next-door to downtown cafes, across from the mall, and around the corner from your neighbourhood gym.
BEPPLE: Kamloops city council took the easy way out
Moving a bus stop should not be such a difficult thing. But in Kamloops it can be. On Tuesday, Kamloops City Council spent over two hours debating whether to move a bus stop. In the end, council said no. They decided to keep the stop where it was. This is actually the second time the...
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...
