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BEPPLE: Cleaning up the climate change mess in Kamloops

We are now in uncharted waters. As a species, we have caused massive changes to the atmosphere. Time will tell of the consequences. Over the last 100 years, we have burned massive amounts of coal, oil and gas. As a result, we have introduced large quantities of carbon dioxide, or CO2, into the atmosphere. The...

POULSEN: McDonald’s sells out to the kale crowd

I’ve never written a restaurant review so it’s an honour to start with a five-star eatery. McDonald’s has a new item on its menu. Canada has been chosen as the world-wide test market for McDonald’s kale salads. They arrived at the McDriv-Thru last Friday. Don’t think we’re being used as Guinea pigs. Maybe like canaries...

LOEWEN: A bittersweet Spring and the birth of a book

Bittersweet, this year. The changing of the season I mean. The dogged persistence of nature’s Spring re-awakening. Here in the Okanagan, one welcomes happily the greening of the hills, the height of the sun, the air moist and fragrant with, first cherry and then lilac, blossoms. Magpies and quail nest in our yards. The vineyards,...

JONESIE: The best way to pass on driving skills

My first born is now old enough to start driving, so lucky for him he can learn from me: The Greatest Driver in the World. How does he know I’m the greatest driver? Well, because he rides with me, of course. He knows all other drivers are pure idiots. “Look at this guy. He thinks...

PARKER: The wonderful dad-bod and other signs we are not alone

When I first read Lena Dunham’s book “Not That Kind of Girl,” I felt like blessing it. Not because she said anything that made me contemplate life like a Joan Didion novel (or, like, the book of Psalms), but because she looked me in the eyeballs —verbally, obviously — and told me my mind was...

HELSTON: Angry about school superintendents getting raises? You’re missing the point

Many reacted with shock when news broke that superintendents in three Okanagan school districts were given raises last year, but I think we might be missing the bigger picture. What I find more shocking than a superintendent with 30 years of education experience receiving a pay raise — the first for that position since 2006...

POULSEN: Racial conflict still ravaging American dream

The politically correct are relentless goblins, demanding rules of taste and semantics even amid death and riots in the race-torn U.S. In their latest crusade, the PCs are deeply offended by use of the word “thug” during the Baltimore riots. "These are not thugs, these are upset and frustrated children," said Rev. Jamal Bryant. "'Thugs'...

LOEWEN: The Alberta election and the politics of hope

“Pigs fly!” “Hell has frozen.” “I step off a plane after 3.5 hours and we've got an F'in NDP government and the Flames tying goal is called off!! The world has gone to hell!!!” A sampling of the commentary on my Facebook wall last night as the Alberta provincial election results rolled in and media...

PARKER: Powering down in case of emergency

“I’ll message you when I’m out front so you can let me in,” was the last message I received from a girlfriend before the battery of my phone died. I knew it was dying before I had even left home, but I so strongly believed that 26 per cent would get me from A to...