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YO MAMA: What’s that smell?
The smell arrived the way all mysterious odours do: slowly, insidiously, and unattached to any…
YO MAMA: I finally understand everything my mother did for me
About a week after my son was born I felt a desperate need to call…
YO MAMA: The man in the hat
OPINION We have this friend who always wears a ball cap. The guy must have…
YO MAMA: Your baby is a zen master
OPINION Water vapour floats up in soft wisps and tendrils as I drain my pot…
OPINION: Kelowna, Kamloops mayors say B.C. cities need access to federal housing fund
OPINION People who work in our cities can’t afford to live in them. Young people…
YO MAMA: “It’s just that easy!”
OPINION It was finally here, that momentous day the kid turned six months old and…
JONESIE: Kelowna’s soulless city and the tyranny of privacy
OPINION This week we told you about Rick Halisheff, a musician in Kelowna who is…
YO MAMA: Burn, baby, burn
OPINION Sometimes, I swear my husband strategically asks me questions when he knows I am…
YO MAMA: Baby’s first unique… word?
OPINION It sounded like he was saying “Dad” with a polite little English boy accent,…
YO MAMA: One hundred pickled eggs
I’ve never been good at shelling eggs. Every time I complain about this culinary deficiency,…
YO MAMA: When babies ignore social distancing rules
OPINION I found a vacant corner of the big blue playmat and sat down with…
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…
YO MAMA: The tale of the baby who loves to munch his Munsch
OPINION I sat cross-legged on the floor with my eight-month-old son nestled in the seat…
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.…
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…
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: Convoy protest is not about rights and freedoms
OPINION I’ve been in Ottawa for the past nine days, in the centre of the…
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…
JONESIE: Come on, Penticton, do the right thing
OPINION In a week when the spectacular and devastating failure by the City of Penticton…
JONESIE: That time Ron Cannan actually said something
OPINION It should surprise no one that the interior of B.C. — and Kelowna more…
JONESIE: Finally found a great local restaurant and the inevitable happens
OPINION We’ve been dining out a lot recently. Partly pandemic support, partly our age (I…
JONESIE: In defence of reporting from unnamed sources
OPINION It’s always a risk as a journalist using information provided by unnamed sources. It’s…
JONESIE: Where real men go to get their hair cut
OPINION Eighteen months was long enough. It had to be done. I had to finally…
JONESIE: Kelowna Mayor Norm Letnick and MLA Colin Basran? That’s the plan for 2022
OPINION Want to be the mayor of Kelowna? Someone’s going to need to step up…