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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...
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...