Opinion General
JONESIE: Notes from another vacation amid a global crisis
OPINION Post-COVID is going great so far, don’t you think? Nothing to worry about now.…
THOMPSON: A look back at parenting in the 1950s
OPINION My mother never read a book about raising children. I doubt she even heard…
YO MAMA: A new view from the living room couch
OPINION It was about to happen again. The kid, now two weeks old, was going…
THOMPSON: America’s Right Wing cancer is spreading, Canadians need to stand against it
OPINION Democracy is the right to vote for your leader. It is a really simple…
THOMPSON: The vagaries of Florida’s weather include falling iguanas
OPINION There are two seasons in Florida: hurricane and falling iguana. The hurricane season starts…
JONESIE: There’s something rotten over the TNRD investigation
OPINION Things have gotten worse at the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, not better. The regional district…
LETTER: How the Thompson-Nicola Regional District board got so off course
I was asked yesterday to provide the speech I made at our board meeting to…
LETTER: Convoy protest is not about rights and freedoms
OPINION I’ve been in Ottawa for the past nine days, in the centre of the…
LETTER: A message to those involved in the protest convoy
OPINION I hate to tell you this but if you believe this freedom convoy was…
THOMPSON: The not so subtle ways Americans and Canadians are different
OPINION I live in two very different worlds…the U.S. and Canada. My homes are different…
THOMPSON: Pandemic side effect? More young people are starting to smoke
OPINION With so much to worry about – the pandemic, fires, global warming – the…
THOMPSON: Now is not the time in COVID pandemic to throw caution to the wind
OPINION Tired of this whole pandemic, are you? You say life seems worse now than…
JONESIE: As sun sets on pandemic, here come the clowns
OPINION No one’s going to be sad to see the back side of COVID. It’s…
THOMPSON: Caribbean fighting disease that kills coral
OPINION The charms of the Caribbean – St. Croix, Jamaica and hundreds of islands, some…
THOMPSON: It’s time for a new definition of a ‘living wage’
OPINION What would you say is a living wage? Is it $15 an hour? $20?…