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THOMPSON: Get ready to share highway with self-driving commercial trucks
OPINION About two million 18-wheelers in the U.S. move more than 70 percent of the…
LETTER: Kelowna MP Tracy Gray playing political game of bait-and-switch
OPINION Tracy Gray’s vote against a bill banning conversion therapy is a “principled decision?” Really?…
THOMPSON: Florida’s response to COVID crisis criminal
OPINION In a just world, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis would be charged with manslaughter…enough to…
THOMPSON: Wildfires, pandemic, climate change make it tough to be an optimist
OPINION I’ve been an optimist my entire life. Admittedly, that’s not always easy. After all,…
THOMPSON: It is long past time to make vaccinations mandatory
OPINION The take-a-way from those who choose not to be vaccinated against COVID-19 is clear…they…
THOMPSON: The art of choosing a new mattress
OPINION When you’re 18 you can sleep anywhere…in a hammock…on a board…on the ground. At…
THOMPSON: Art collecting by wealthy rarely a pretty sight
OPINION While most of my painting has involved two coats on a bedroom wall, I’ve…
B.C. has turned its forests into a ticking time bomb: Zeman
OPINION After record temperatures seared much of the province, this year's fire season got off…
THOMPSON: It’s time for taxation to be simplified in Canada and around the world
OPINION It was – as I recall – breathtakingly green…almost as if hand painted by…
THOMPSON: This is not your father’s golf
OPINION Danny Noonan – paying his way to college by caddying at exclusive Bushwood Country…
POLL: Will you continue to wear a mask indoors when orders are lifted July 1?
We're ahead of schedule in B.C. and starting tomorrow, most public health orders and restrictions…
THOMPSON: Democrats must fight the lies and fiction from Trump Republicans
OPINION What do you say to someone who believes the U.S. government and its major…
THOMPSON: How the COVID-19 pandemic changed us
OPINION Looking at a map of the world last week, I thought about how the…
THOMPSON: Canadian residential school tragedy demands restitution
OPINION When I first heard of the 215 unmarked graves of children who died during…
JONESIE: The knives are out for Kelowna Mayor Colin Basran
OPINION Kelowna Mayor Colin Basran seemed pretty pleased with himself for raising $31,000 for his…
THOMPSON: Inhumane sport of dog racing comes to an end in Florida
OPINION A bit of my past recently passed…something I expect and accept as I age.…
LETTER: Dark history or present reality?
OPINION Since the news broke about the discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous children…
THOMPSON: Still no accountability for Tulsa Race Massacre
OPINION A hundred years ago today, thousands of white residents of Tulsa, OK turned on…
THOMPSON: When curiosity takes wing
OPINION The other day as I stepped outside my front door…a swallow swooped down within…
THOMPSON: Time for the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes
OPINION Billionaire. It’s hard to get your head around what it means to be a…
THOMPSON: Willie Mays, baseball’s greatest of all time
It was 1989 – mid-July – and I was in San Francisco on a trip…
POLL: Should the border with Alberta be closed until B.C. and Alberta get COVID under control?
B.C. has finally figured out it is going to enforce inter-provincial travel to stop the…
THOMPSON: Link between air pollution and climate change can’t be ignored
During the past 16 months, nearly 3.2 million people worldwide have died from a raging…
THOMPSON: ‘Awesome’ and other words that should be banned
OPINION There are certain words in English that maybe we should no longer use, and…