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Opinion General

LOEWEN: The Alberta election and the politics of hope

“Pigs fly!” “Hell has frozen.” “I step off a plane after 3.5 hours and we've got an F'in NDP government and the Flames tying goal is called off!! The world has gone to hell!!!” A sampling of the commentary on my Facebook wall last night as the Alberta provincial election results rolled in and media...

PARKER: Powering down in case of emergency

“I’ll message you when I’m out front so you can let me in,” was the last message I received from a girlfriend before the battery of my phone died. I knew it was dying before I had even left home, but I so strongly believed that 26 per cent would get me from A to...

STAHN: What makes your city worth exploring?

This is hard for me to admit, but it’s important, so bear with me. I live in one of the best wine regions in North America. I’ve never gone on a wine tour. I live in one of best golf areas in the country. I don’t play golf. Heck, we’re even known for some kick-butt...

POULSEN: Peachland industrial-style marijuana grow ready for first crop

The Interior’s largest medical marijuana grow is about to sprout its first crop. The first crop will be . . . strawberries? The strawberries will be a test crop to work out the intricacies of the system, which is extensive and expensive beyond the dreamiest visions of Cheech and Chong. After the strawberry run-through, the farm...

LOEWEN: Canada’s not a nation of “scared rabbits”

Anti-democratic, authoritarian and autocratic. Back-stabbing, brow-beating and bullying. Churlish, corrupt and cryptic. Devious, dictatorial and divisive. Egregious and erroneous. Fear-mongering, flawed and fraudulent. Grandiose, grudge-bearing and guileful. Haughty, hectoring and hypocritical. Ill-advised, imperious and invasive. Janus-faced and kleptocratic. Labour-bashing, labyrinthine and lachrymose. Mendacious, militaristic and misguided. Nasty, nefarious, and negligent. Obfuscatory, obscurantist and opaque. Paranoid,...

PARKER: Ageing just makes you a better alumni

If there’s one place in Vancouver that good girls go to die it’s the Roxy Cabaret on Granville Street. Situated between a greasy late-night poutine stop and an 18+ arcade, the Roxy is a staple of the Granville strip — close enough to the centre of the city to be considered a hot spot, but...

PROSKIW: Teaching is tougher than it looks

Yesterday I had the chance to be a middle school teacher for half a day at the fourth annual Living Library at my old school. It was a little frustrating. Groups of four to 10 students had 15 minutes to sit with me and ask questions about the business of local reporting. I was impressed...

POULSEN: Monsanto is invading… plus love hormones and your dog

Minster of Lands Steve Thomson announced last week that the province will spend $1.7 million to combat invasive and troublesome plants. This includes eight projects in the Thompson-Okanagan, using a combination of management methods. It took a bit of coaxing to get the name of a herbicide that will be used, but the name was...

LOEWEN: What I learned at the B.C. Interior Jazz Festival

Readers of my weekly column will know by now that I am an inveterate slave to music. No doubt it was my significantly older brothers, constantly spinning LPs on the rec room stereo in the early Sixties, that first made me a fan of the classic rock greats: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Doors,...

JONESIE: When facts get in the way of a news story

Overheard in the newsroom, (kinda') Reporter: There’s a protest in West Kelowna again today. All the major provincial media have done stories on it already. Shouldn’t we do something on it? Editor: Well maybe, but I still have no idea what this protest is all about. Reporter: Five chiefs from the Nicola Valley don’t want...