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THOMPSON: A look back at parenting in the 1950s
OPINION My mother never read a book about raising children. I doubt she even heard…
YO MAMA: A new view from the living room couch
OPINION It was about to happen again. The kid, now two weeks old, was going…
THOMPSON: America’s Right Wing cancer is spreading, Canadians need to stand against it
OPINION Democracy is the right to vote for your leader. It is a really simple…
YO MAMA: 10 things new parents do that should be Olympic sports
OPINION We have our very own version of the Olympic games going on in our…
THOMPSON: The vagaries of Florida’s weather include falling iguanas
OPINION There are two seasons in Florida: hurricane and falling iguana. The hurricane season starts…
YO MAMA: I’ve come undone
OPINION “It’s going to be a big day for us,” I whispered to the tiny,…
JONESIE: There’s something rotten over the TNRD investigation
OPINION Things have gotten worse at the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, not better. The regional district…
LETTER: How the Thompson-Nicola Regional District board got so off course
I was asked yesterday to provide the speech I made at our board meeting to…
LETTER: Convoy protest is not about rights and freedoms
OPINION I’ve been in Ottawa for the past nine days, in the centre of the…
LETTER: A message to those involved in the protest convoy
OPINION I hate to tell you this but if you believe this freedom convoy was…
THOMPSON: The not so subtle ways Americans and Canadians are different
OPINION I live in two very different worlds…the U.S. and Canada. My homes are different…
YO MAMA: The newborn phase can go to hell
OPINION I’ve been peed and pooped on, there are milk stains on the couch and…
THOMPSON: Pandemic side effect? More young people are starting to smoke
OPINION With so much to worry about – the pandemic, fires, global warming – the…
YO MAMA: So, this is parenthood
OPINION We brought our baby boy home on my birthday. It was one of those…
THOMPSON: Now is not the time in COVID pandemic to throw caution to the wind
OPINION Tired of this whole pandemic, are you? You say life seems worse now than…
YO MAMA: Am I even ready to have a kid?
OPINION My husband and I didn’t even know if we wanted a baby. We spent…
JONESIE: As sun sets on pandemic, here come the clowns
OPINION No one’s going to be sad to see the back side of COVID. It’s…
THOMPSON: Caribbean fighting disease that kills coral
OPINION The charms of the Caribbean – St. Croix, Jamaica and hundreds of islands, some…
THOMPSON: It’s time for a new definition of a ‘living wage’
OPINION What would you say is a living wage? Is it $15 an hour? $20?…
THOMPSON: How do we help healthcare workers as global pandemic nears two year mark?
OPINION Going on two years now we’ve talked about how the COVID-19 pandemic has punished…
THOMPSON: We didn’t know what we had until it was gone when it comes to global travel
OPINION The old adage, “you don't know what you've got until it's gone” is true.…
POLL: Where did you do most of your Christmas shopping this year?
It's Dec. 21 and there's not much time left before the big day. You do…
THOMPSON: The mysterious ‘Havana Syndrome’
OPINION It started five years ago. U.S. and Canadian diplomats and their families in Havana,…
THOMPSON: We’re not out of COVID-19 pandemic woods yet, not by a long shot
OPINION Nearly two years into the worst pandemic in a century the world can take…