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POULSEN: Pseudo wisdom attacks social media

"We teach people how to treat us." - famous psychologist, Dr. Phil. "Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit into the big jigsaw puzzle."- famous philosopher, Deepak Chopra. "Where friends become neighbours." - famous beermaker, Budweiser. "We generate the results in life we believe we...

LOEWEN: Bowie retrospectively: Everybody gets got

I stumble to the graveyard and I Lay down by my parents, whisper Just remember duckies Everybody gets got David Bowie knew what we all come to know, eventually. There’s no escape from Death’s inevitable tap at our Life’s door. There’s no bargaining with the Reaper. But if we’re mindful of the singular truth about...

PARKER: The Importance of Being Earnest

How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only...

JONESIE: Why my relationship with online comments must change

Here’s the thing, online comments, I think we need some time apart. I want you to know right off the top: It’s not you, it’s me. It was fun in the beginning, remember? We would meet like once a week at a roadside internet bulletin board, have hours of anonymous group text. Sometimes dozens of...

STAHN: Our love-hate relationship with snow

Whether you love winter or hate it there seems to be one thing most people can agree about at this time of year, and that’s the need to complain about the ‘bad job’ snow clearing operators are doing. Everywhere you turn people are complaining about the city doing a bad job, their neighbours not doing...

HELSTON: Why we’re waiting around at the courthouse

Reporters, lawyers, and no doubt court staff were on the edge of their seats earlier this week in Vernon awaiting not a landmark ruling from the judge, but a verdict on whether there was even enough time to hold the sentence hearing at all. It was already the third time the case was up for...

BEPPLE: The need for a safer Westsyde Road

On Monday, a young woman from Kamloops was killed in a head-on collision with another vehicle on Westsyde Road. What a difficult time it must be for the family. It leaves a huge hole in their hearts. It will take a long time for the family to heal. If her death was the only one,...

POULSEN: Trump and Trudeau have something big in common

Last month, two Canadian national news outlets came up with entirely different headlines about the same Angus Reid poll: "Trump brand is mud in Canada," said one. "Significant number of Canadians agree with Donald Trump for a border ban on Muslims," said the other. How's that for clarity? The practitioners of the dark art of...