Opinion
THOMPSON: As COVID pandemic wanes, it’s not the time to ignore science
OPINION The Omicron coronavirus BA.1 – like an unwanted house guest – is finally leaving…
THOMPSON: There will be no winners in Ukraine-Russian war
OPINION There are always reasons for war, some more noble and righteous than others. But…
THOMPSON: Why more Americans are cheerleading for Putin and Russia
OPINION Despite the Russian invasion of Ukraine killing women, children and elderly…millions of Americans and…
THOMPSON: The strategic error that is Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
OPINION On paper, it’s a walkover. Not even a drunken gambler with a fondness for…
LETTER: Rust Valley Restorers host Mike Hall knows how to ‘keep it real’
OPINION To Mike Hall, host of Rust Valley Restorers, I've been a car junkie since…
JONESIE: Notes from another vacation amid a global crisis
OPINION Post-COVID is going great so far, don’t you think? Nothing to worry about now.…
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…
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…
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…