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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...

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...

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...