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STAHN: What makes your city worth exploring?

This is hard for me to admit, but it’s important, so bear with me. I live in one of the best wine regions in North America. I’ve never gone on a wine tour. I live in one of best golf areas in the country. I don’t play golf. Heck, we’re even known for some kick-butt...

POULSEN: Peachland industrial-style marijuana grow ready for first crop

The Interior’s largest medical marijuana grow is about to sprout its first crop. The first crop will be . . . strawberries? The strawberries will be a test crop to work out the intricacies of the system, which is extensive and expensive beyond the dreamiest visions of Cheech and Chong. After the strawberry run-through, the farm...

BEPPLE: Security is in the small things

The fact recent headlines from City Hall were about backyard chickens, drive-thrus and transit fares tells me things are fairly quiet on the municipal front in Kamloops. These are typical day-to-day issues dealt with by all municipalities, but nothing which requires strong leadership one way or another. Whether or not my neighbour has chickens in...

LOEWEN: Canada’s not a nation of “scared rabbits”

Anti-democratic, authoritarian and autocratic. Back-stabbing, brow-beating and bullying. Churlish, corrupt and cryptic. Devious, dictatorial and divisive. Egregious and erroneous. Fear-mongering, flawed and fraudulent. Grandiose, grudge-bearing and guileful. Haughty, hectoring and hypocritical. Ill-advised, imperious and invasive. Janus-faced and kleptocratic. Labour-bashing, labyrinthine and lachrymose. Mendacious, militaristic and misguided. Nasty, nefarious, and negligent. Obfuscatory, obscurantist and opaque. Paranoid,...

PARKER: Ageing just makes you a better alumni

If there’s one place in Vancouver that good girls go to die it’s the Roxy Cabaret on Granville Street. Situated between a greasy late-night poutine stop and an 18+ arcade, the Roxy is a staple of the Granville strip — close enough to the centre of the city to be considered a hot spot, but...

PROSKIW: Teaching is tougher than it looks

Yesterday I had the chance to be a middle school teacher for half a day at the fourth annual Living Library at my old school. It was a little frustrating. Groups of four to 10 students had 15 minutes to sit with me and ask questions about the business of local reporting. I was impressed...

STAHN: When schools get ‘swatted’

Prank calls are not new; how many people don’t remember calling up a neighbour and asking if their refrigerator was running? Or asking a business to page Amanda Huginkiss? Harmless pranks, probably funnier when you think back on it now. But today's prank calls aren't what they used to be. You were likely introduced to...

HELSTON: Creativity, timing could breathe life into Downtown Vernon

We have two different stories taking place at opposite sides of the city: On the north end, we’re seeing upheaval in the commercial, big box store world with the departure of Target, Future Shop, and retail outlets in the Village Green Centre. But for every store that closes in the mall, a local ‘mom and...

POULSEN: Monsanto is invading… plus love hormones and your dog

Minster of Lands Steve Thomson announced last week that the province will spend $1.7 million to combat invasive and troublesome plants. This includes eight projects in the Thompson-Okanagan, using a combination of management methods. It took a bit of coaxing to get the name of a herbicide that will be used, but the name was...

BEPPLE: Traffic problems. What traffic problems?

Kamloops has lots of advantages. Great weather, reasonable house prices, and for the most part almost no traffic problems. Sitting though two red lights is grounds enough to complain in Kamloops. Kamloopsians are not used to being stuck in traffic. Which is probably why with the start of the construction on Overlanders Bridge people have...

LOEWEN: What I learned at the B.C. Interior Jazz Festival

Readers of my weekly column will know by now that I am an inveterate slave to music. No doubt it was my significantly older brothers, constantly spinning LPs on the rec room stereo in the early Sixties, that first made me a fan of the classic rock greats: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Doors,...

JONESIE: When facts get in the way of a news story

Overheard in the newsroom, (kinda') Reporter: There’s a protest in West Kelowna again today. All the major provincial media have done stories on it already. Shouldn’t we do something on it? Editor: Well maybe, but I still have no idea what this protest is all about. Reporter: Five chiefs from the Nicola Valley don’t want...