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Opinion General
PARKER: Hockey, hot heads and high fives
My next-door neighbor’s name is Ellen and she has lived in the same 550 square foot apartment since it was built in 1964. Ellen always has the news blasting at 7 a.m. and — if television volume is an indicator — is a huge fan of every sport played by humans. She has a wonderful...
JONESIE: If this rail trail fails, blame our local politicians
This idea of a continuous trail from Vernon to Kelowna, and perhaps some day to Penticton, should be exciting for nearly everyone. If you ever walked or rode the Kettle Valley Railway and trestles, you might get a sense of what it would be like to follow an even grade over the decommissioned CN Rail...
POULSEN: My inbox is very effing mad at me
Last week’s column brought a lot of angry responses, although this time it wasn’t anything I said. My email address, which was posted at the end of the column, was misused to send phishing emails to strangers. There were 153 reply emails to me from these strangers. Although many were marked as “undeliverable,” a lot...
LOEWEN: Get your groove on at the B.C. Interior Jazz Festival
Armstrong, Biederbeck, Bechet and Bolden. Ellington, Basie, Hawkins and Coltrane. Parker, Monk, Mingus and Davis. Holiday, Fitzgerald, Baker and Connick Jr. Argatoff, Buck, Ertel and Griffin… I’m groovin’ with the greats today, baby. That’s right, the jazz greats. America’s finest contribution to world culture is that musical art form that manages to swing and moan, jive and...
PARKER: Education by Game of Thrones
In case you have been living under a rock — or are simply one of those people who doesn’t buy into the awesomeness of HBO due to the excessive boob shots and the brutal glorification of everything horrible — it’s Game of Thrones month. Of course, Game of Thrones month isn’t a real thing —...
BROTHEN: Community cooperation in Kamloops a model for others
Anytime you talk about your city and what you like most about it, you're bound to compare it to other communities. One thing Kamloops has above most cities in the province's interior is its progressive friendship between the local band and municipal staff. Both groups meet up once a year for lunch to talk about...
POULSEN: About rape and the anguish for those wrongfully charged with it
Without taking too big a leap of imagination, I’m going to pretend to know what the people at Rolling Stone Magazine were thinking when they published an exclusive story about an alleged seven-man rape during a party at the University Of Virginia’s Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. They were thinking: “This is a terrible story so...
LOEWEN: The conflicted joy of the Easter holiday
For many of us, the arrival of Easter heralds the arrival of Spring, and a general re-awakening of nature. Even our very senses seem more rudely alive, aching to take in the explosions of growth all around, our noses attuned to the blossoms scent carried on the wind, our eyes jealously keeping track of the...
PARKER: The meaning of Easter, according to Bieber
In my garbage can lies an empty two-pound bag of Cadbury Mini Eggs, three rose stems and a poorly folded, canary-yellow leaflet with the words “Eternal Salvation” sprawled across the top like a lazy sun-tanner in June. Despite the paraphernalia — collected both from Safeway and the street-corner evangelist outside of Safeway — I totally...