Opinion

These early worries about a bad forest fire season are well founded. The Okanagan is drier now than it was previous to the Okanagan Park fire in 2003. Here are the Kelowna airport precipitation figures in centimetres for April, May, and through June 23, 2003, compared with the same period for this year. 2003: 80.6...

“Things are slowly getting better, politically, in Canada,” said “WhitePridePatriot.” “(H)ats off the (sic) Steven Harper and the Conservatives for Finlay (sic) scarping (sic) this "law"! Hats off to Ezra Levant and Mark Styne for challenging this and making this more widely known. Most importantly, hats off to unsung heroes Paul Fromm, Mark Lamiere, Doug...

To hear the mainstream Canadian media talk about the so-called Senate "scandal," one would think the Auditor General took it upon himself to clean up the Senate and in doing so caught the Tories doing... we're-not-sure-what-but-it's-probably-bad. This popular narrative is highly misleading. Moreover, it deflects from a truly egregious scandal, and one that the media...

Over the past two weeks I have followed everyone from Justin Bieber to Kylie Jenner on Snapchat. Three weeks ago I didn’t even know celebrities used Snapchat, but this week, everywhere I look someone famous is announcing they use the medium and I can’t help but pay attention to how. Snapchat is the infamous App...

* Our senators have to move out of their offices for renovations. Quick, lock all the doors behind them! * The Ottawa media has overloaded us with the saga of Omar Khadr. This happens when Ottawa journalists drink their own bath water, which is always. No one cares to have a daily bombardment of Khadr...

Several years ago, I began a “Portrait Gallery of Badasses” on my own Facebook page. Doing so gave me an opportunity to offer a little more in the way of content to my “friends” beyond my typical political postings which threatened to make me a “person of interest” to the powers-that-be way before we had...

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another." ~ Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway, who often signed his name "E.H.", revolutionized American prose with his short sharp sentences and barebones clarity. I've always been in awe of his...

Did you know that some of the world’s toughest fire fighters are starting to think that wildfires are getting too dangerous to fight? Apparently, fire season is lasting up to seven months in some of the hotter areas of America. Now, usually I’m not one to blurt out flame statistics but, to steer clear of...

People care about their airport, probably more than most other public buildings. The airport is the first impression for many visitors, including our family and friends. We want it to make a statement on our behalf, in the way more attention is paid to the front door than the one in the back with the...