Opinion

Have you ever wondered why people need only one round of core vaccinations as kids but your dog or cat seems to need boosters until the day they depart? They probably don't and there's a way to prove it. There's now a relatively inexpensive test being offered by progressive vets that will determine if your...

On August 2nd, when PM Stephen Harper initiated the start of the Canadian federal election campaign, many of us looking at the eleven weeks looming ahead figured the guy was nuts. Eleven weeks? How could a disengaged electorate, stymied by the government’s intransigence in engaging Canadians with accountability and transparency, be expected to get engaged...

There's nothing like sitting in a cardboard castle on the shore of a lake on the edge of the Rockies late on an early September evening, reading by the soft yellow light of a Coleman gas lamp to get the mind drifting down odd alleyways. The setup finished, a soft rain ending, and my dog...

Kanye West yelled the words “f--k that bro!” into his microphone at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles and proceeded to make a frighteningly thoughtful claim about the state of the arts in the modern world at the MTV VMAs last Sunday, Aug. 30. “I just wanted people to like me more,” West states, halfway...

A new study shows that tequila causes pregnancy. No, there isn’t such a study. It’s an in-joke among science researchers to suggest how cause and effect - and profit motive - can be manipulated to produce new health headlines. This has been a big year for new health studies that ostensibly debunk long established wisdom...

My obsession with observing closely the personalities and machinations at the heart of the monied classes and political power, came through a provincial employers’ grant in the early Eighties. Winnipeg's toniest men’s boutique, then as now, was Hanford-Drewitt, a long-established club of sorts for the city’s best-heeled men. And “everybody who was anybody” shopped there:...

Since my earliest political involvement in the late 1980s, I've been struggling to understand why people aren't more engaged in federal politics. I still haven't figured it out, but over twenty plus years of political engagement, I've developed a couple of notions. First, most people just don't know how government works and if you don't...

6 A.M. is early enough to begin with, but 6 A.M. and 2000 people in Spandex tights is another thing entirely. There isn’t enough coffee in the world to adjust that sight — especially when all 2000 of those people are soaking wet and crammed into a giant rodeo barn. The Ride to Conquer Cancer...

Thomas Mulcair, leader of the federal NDP is coming to Kamloops on Tuesday, September 1.  Good news for the local candidate Bill Sundhu. Sundhu will have additional local media coverage because of Mulcair’s visit, and will also share the national spotlight with Mulcair. And good news for Kamloops too. It will mean the press corps...