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Opinion General

ANDERSON: Western guilt and the Islamist threat

The middle east is more unstable today than it's been since Axis and Allied armour ranged across it in a hot war 75 years ago, on the fringes of living memory, yet we are not treating ISIS as a serious threat. It cannot mount an invasion of the west, it cannot come close to winning...

PARKER: Good enough is good enough for Adele

This past week, a New York Times article blew up on the Internet courtesy of its title, in which the author referred to Adele not by her name, but by calling her a “27-year-old mother who barely uses social media.” The backlash was immediate. “Would someone write about Justin Timberlake as a 34-year-old dad who...

HELSTON: How I fared for a day without a car

There are many things we neglect to do in our own hometowns, and for me, one of those things was riding the bus. Before this week, I had never used Vernon’s public transit system. So, after a recent trip to Vancouver in which I relied on buses and skytrains, I decided it was time to...

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...

LOEWEN: The Trumping of America and darkness descending

Just when you thought the political scene was bright, now that the bad man has been banished from the Prime Minister’s Office, and the shiny new man has promised “sunny ways” ahead, reality has set in. The Canadian gaze, ordinarily drawn to its own navel, begins to notice what’s happening to the south of the...

JONESIE: Why nobody around here cares about ‘gender parity’ pronouncements

“Because It’s 2015” How many times have you seen or heard those words since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau uttered them earlier this month? It’s now the favoured over-used one-liner of rabid lefties to throw in the face of anyone they believe is behind the times. Trudeau, of course, gave that answer to a reporter who...

PARKER: Dial-and-Error: why it’s OK for our social media to have a past

Twelve years ago, along with five other 16 year olds, I was granted detention for painting a provocative and non-age-appropriate team name onto the back of a tank top during lunch hour. Not thinking about the slogan with any seriousness or ill intent, we high-fived like rebels on the run and hung the shirts to...

BEPPLE: The safety of Kamloops, bomb threats and all

In Kamloops, we are amazingly blessed with the peace we have. Not just peace, but the confidence that all things considered, we have the means to deal with any issues that may arise. I was at the Tournament Capital Centre on Thursday when the bomb threat at the centre was reported. The first sign that...

STAHN: Don’t be insulted by ‘happy holidays’

Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Easter, New Year’s, Family Day, Canada Day, summer vacation — I don’t care how you say it, they are all holidays. Why do people get so worked up about it when Christmas is called a holiday? By the English definition of the word, it is a holiday.  Full Definition of HOLIDAY noun...