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GOG: If the Git says you’re going slow, you are way too slow
On Monday I tried driving fast down a fast road in a fast car. This sort of summer driving should be fun. Get the old girl’s top off (I’m talking convertibles here, but you can imagine whatever you want,) stomp on the loud pedal and head for the open road. Alas, nothing but frustration awaits....
LOEWEN: The Big Questions between father and son
My Dad hasn’t had a barbershop haircut since 1968. He’s fiercely proud of the stance. It’s political. When I first heard Dad’s bald confession, I was in Kelowna for a visit and I needed a trim. My folks had recently moved here after Dad retired from his professorship at the University of Winnipeg. As we...
PARKER: A twenty-something’s guide to being glamourously poor
What is it about being poor that makes a person immediately want to buy a bottle of wine? I just don’t think it’s very fair to be tested like that, you know? Because, yes, I’m well aware I should probably spend my last $10 on some sort of starch but, in the battle of Great...
JONESIE: The answer is more difficult than it appears and it appears impossible
It’s easier to stay with an abusive partner.
Homeless deaths inspire memorial and call to action
VERNON - This past winter, Chuck Harper drove past a pair of homeless men he knew well from his work at the local shelter. He was aware of their addictions and health troubles. Having panhandled on the streets of Vernon when he was 16, he didn’t judge or look down on them— he called them...
West Kelowna school gets last stop on cross Canada tour
WEST KELOWNA – Students in West Kelowna will be treated to a special presentation Friday as a reward for their help in getting a school built in Kenya. Mt. Boucherie Secondary will host the final performance of the Spencer West “We Create Change” tour. The tour includes a presentation by humanitarian Spencer West, a performance...
GOG: You win this time, horrible package! Oh, probably next time too
I had to buy a pair of scissors this week so I could trim the cat. My scissors came encased in an impenetrable cell of hard plastic that could only be breached by scissors. Three days later they are still taunting me from inside their impermeable plastic fortress, while the cat remains disgracefully unkempt. Somewhere...
LOEWEN: Public education and the petri dish of B.C. politics-to-come
Christy Clark and her cadre are unwittingly shaping the voice of political leadership in British Columbia for generations to come. They don’t realize it yet. Christy Clark and her cadre are too busy sweating over a decade of political misdeeds and how these actions will hamstring them in the summer months ahead, when they’d far...
PARKER: Plenty of truth behind every twirsonality
I follow a girl on Twitter whose profile claims she doesn’t follow anyone with whom she wouldn’t have beers in real life. I can totally appreciate that, even though she doesn’t follow me back. In a world filled with Photoshop and photo-bombs, edit and delete, themes and filters and personal manifestos disguised as About Me...
JONESIE: What this strike is about, what it isn’t, and what it should be
What about the strike? What do you think about the strike? Do you support the strike? Or do you not support the strike? Oh man, here we go again, everyone losing their minds. I have a simple answer to the whole thing: I feel the same about this strike as I did the one before...
Police want the identity of this woman
KELOWNA - Police are asking the public to help them identify a woman who appeared in several surveillance videos allegedly making purchases with stolen credit cards. The videos of the dark-haired woman come from numerous locations across the Central Okanagan. Mounties say at least half a dozen investigations of thefts from vehicles where credit cards...
Elementary teacher encourages phones in class
KAMLOOPS - They have them, so why not use them? That is the mentality of one teacher who is trying to show young students how to use smartphones and tablets as more than just an entertainment device. Teacher Jason Sandhu has always loved technology and is constantly looking for ways to bring it into his...
GOG: Put THIS in the bag, you stupid machine
I am old enough to remember the empty promise of the digital age, the big lie propagated by that young pup Gates and his cohorts, that technology would improve our lives. It’s the twenty-first century for God’s sake. By now we were all supposed to be relaxing at home being amused to death by our...
LOEWEN: Christy Clark and the price of ignorance
“Education costs money, but then so does ignorance,” — Sir Claus Moser Christy Clark does not believe in public education. If she did, her son would be enrolled in one of Vancouver’s many fine public schools. But he’s not. Young Hamish is enrolled at one of Vancouver’s many fine private schools. He’s a lucky lad....
PARKER: An uneasy return to pen and paper
For the past three weeks I have been unable to use my MacBook. My inability to find a UK adapter strong enough to charge the thing (or my hair dryer) left me paralyzed where technology was concerned (and frizzy elsewhere), and the first thing I did after flying into Pearson International yesterday was to find...
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, We thank you for mentioning Clothesline in your May 20 article ‘Bin Wars’ will not play out in city parks. As Clothesline and the Canadian Diabetes Association have been a member of the Kamloops community for more than 30 years, we would like an opportunity to supplement the information covered in the article. ...
Schools and parents brace for rotating teacher strike
KELOWNA - With just days left before British Columbia's public school teachers launch rotating strike action, contract talks have been put on hold. Union and management say both sides agreed to cancel Friday's bargaining session while they reassess each others proposals. Rich Overgaard, of the B.C. Teachers' Federation, says the union can't be expected to...