Opinion General

Go ahead, break the law and join the club. Like most other societal change, the Internet is involved. This time it’s an online partner in crime with heretofore law-abiding citizens who have gone bad, by the many millions. For instances: — People are going online to pirate almost everything that can be moved electronically: movies,...

Ahhhh... The first long weekend has come and gone. And with its passing, so too have the first round of the thousands of tourists who descend upon the Okanagan Valley each and every blessed summer, starting with the Victoria Day weekend. But they’ll be back, don’t you forget it: Those cigarette boats spewing oil and...

As far as any of my friends or colleagues are concerned, this long weekend I have been MIA. I haven’t returned texts, haven’t responded to invites, haven’t even emoji’d in response to Instagram comments — and that’s rare. You see, every May long weekend my church choir boards a chartered bus and heads deep into...

I’ve never written a restaurant review so it’s an honour to start with a five-star eatery. McDonald’s has a new item on its menu. Canada has been chosen as the world-wide test market for McDonald’s kale salads. They arrived at the McDriv-Thru last Friday. Don’t think we’re being used as Guinea pigs. Maybe like canaries...

Bittersweet, this year. The changing of the season I mean. The dogged persistence of nature’s Spring re-awakening. Here in the Okanagan, one welcomes happily the greening of the hills, the height of the sun, the air moist and fragrant with, first cherry and then lilac, blossoms. Magpies and quail nest in our yards. The vineyards,...

My first born is now old enough to start driving, so lucky for him he can learn from me: The Greatest Driver in the World. How does he know I’m the greatest driver? Well, because he rides with me, of course. He knows all other drivers are pure idiots. “Look at this guy. He thinks...

When I first read Lena Dunham’s book “Not That Kind of Girl,” I felt like blessing it. Not because she said anything that made me contemplate life like a Joan Didion novel (or, like, the book of Psalms), but because she looked me in the eyeballs —verbally, obviously — and told me my mind was...

The politically correct are relentless goblins, demanding rules of taste and semantics even amid death and riots in the race-torn U.S. In their latest crusade, the PCs are deeply offended by use of the word “thug” during the Baltimore riots. "These are not thugs, these are upset and frustrated children," said Rev. Jamal Bryant. "'Thugs'...