Opinion

Former B.C. Premier and Kelowna-area MLA Bill Bennett (left) joined then-premier Gordon Campbell and a host of other dignitaries in 2008 for opening of the bridge over Okanagan Lake that bears his name.

Uzelman: Kelowna’s W.A.C. Bennett was a visionary; no equals amongst today’s leaders

A column by Bruce Uzelman

  • Mar 24, 2023
Distracted driving is known to cause crashes (Black Press file photo)

EDITORIAL: Leave the phone alone

Distracted driving can have fatal consequences

  • Mar 23, 2023
(Black Press file photo)

EDITORIAL: A change in attitudes about alcohol

Pilot project allows alcohol on Summerland beaches.

  • Mar 23, 2023
June 21, 2021 - The front of the BC Legislature's Parliament building designed by architect Frances Rattenbury. Don Denton photograph

Uzelman: B.C. Budget focuses on increased expenditure- disregards growing real income

A column by Bruce Uzelman

  • Mar 20, 2023
June 21, 2021 - The front of the BC Legislature's Parliament building designed by architect Frances Rattenbury. Don Denton photograph
Log yard at Canfor’s Houston sawmill which is closing in April 2023, idling more than 300 employees and many more in the trucking and logging sectors. (Angelique Houlihan photo/Houston Today)

Houston’s mayor makes pitch for economic assistance

The forestry-dependent community in northwestern B.C. is about to lose its major employer

Log yard at Canfor’s Houston sawmill which is closing in April 2023, idling more than 300 employees and many more in the trucking and logging sectors. (Angelique Houlihan photo/Houston Today)
Garden decorations. Old pots with flowers in the garden

Springing into garden cleanup in the Okanagan

A GARDENER’S DIARY: Writer marks 12th year of column offering tips and tricks

  • Mar 13, 2023
Garden decorations. Old pots with flowers in the garden
The Canadian dollar coin, the Loonie, is seen in Montreal, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson

Uzelman: The economic follies of the Government of Canada – Real incomes will decline

A column by Bruce Uzelman

  • Mar 8, 2023
The Canadian dollar coin, the Loonie, is seen in Montreal, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
Eliza Reid and her husband, Gudni Johannesson are shown in this handout image during his campaign in Iceland. Voters in Iceland have elected a new president, and in doing so have made the Canadian woman the Nordic nation’s new first lady. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Hakon Broder Lund

COLUMN: Iceland close to closing gender gap

In honour of International Women’s Day, Vernon writer examines where one country is seeing success

Eliza Reid and her husband, Gudni Johannesson are shown in this handout image during his campaign in Iceland. Voters in Iceland have elected a new president, and in doing so have made the Canadian woman the Nordic nation’s new first lady. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Hakon Broder Lund
FILE – The Ocean Cleanup project’s latest iteration of plastic-collecting technology, the System 002, will leave Victoria and heads to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. (Photo courtesy of the Ocean Cleanup/ Twitter)

OPINION: Court case could kill progress on plastic pollution in Canada

‘The world is beginning to act to reduce the plastic crisis’

  • Mar 6, 2023
FILE – The Ocean Cleanup project’s latest iteration of plastic-collecting technology, the System 002, will leave Victoria and heads to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. (Photo courtesy of the Ocean Cleanup/ Twitter)
Smart technology and home automation are changing our relationships with our machines. (Pixabay.com)

COLUMN: Computers and machines are not people

Home automation technology uses human names

Smart technology and home automation are changing our relationships with our machines. (Pixabay.com)
People demonstrate against the war in the Ukraine in front of the Russian embassy in Ottawa on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. The war in Ukraine is now in its second year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

EDITORIAL: No end in sight to war in Ukraine

Ongoing conflict is now in its second year

  • Mar 5, 2023
People demonstrate against the war in the Ukraine in front of the Russian embassy in Ottawa on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. The war in Ukraine is now in its second year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
FILE – Gisele Pageal (left), Human Rights Director of Communications Energy Paperworkers Union of Canada, and Barbara Byers, Executive Vice-President of the Canadian Labour Congress, announce their chocalate lip campaign at a news conference in Ottawa Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009 to Members of Parliament regarding pay equity for women. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tom Hanson

LETTER: Coalition of 125+ B.C. groups call for pay equity legislation

‘We have paid a staggering price for government inaction,’ open letter says

  • Mar 2, 2023
FILE – Gisele Pageal (left), Human Rights Director of Communications Energy Paperworkers Union of Canada, and Barbara Byers, Executive Vice-President of the Canadian Labour Congress, announce their chocalate lip campaign at a news conference in Ottawa Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009 to Members of Parliament regarding pay equity for women. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tom Hanson
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a news conference at Rideau cottage in Ottawa, on Friday, March 13, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand

Uzelman: The threat to democracy from China and from within

A column by Bruce Uzelman

  • Mar 1, 2023
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a news conference at Rideau cottage in Ottawa, on Friday, March 13, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand
Mellow (dog with pyometra)

Okanagan Humane Society urges spay and neutering

World Spay and Neuter Day is Tuesday, Feb. 28

  • Feb 28, 2023
Mellow (dog with pyometra)
Plastic pollution

Vernon resident pushes increased plastic pollution ban

LETTER: what about the mountains of small plastic bits that are accumulated every day

Plastic pollution
Coldstream resident John Barling writes the reasons why he and his wife decided to go solar in 2022. (Brendan Shykora - Morning Star)

COLUMN: Why a Coldstream couple went solar

John Barling explains the benefits of installing solar and reducing electricity bills

  • Feb 26, 2023
Coldstream resident John Barling writes the reasons why he and his wife decided to go solar in 2022. (Brendan Shykora - Morning Star)
As the cost of food continues to rise, grocery chains in Canada are reportedly making record profits. It’s time for the CEOs of these companies to explain themselves, says the federal New Democratic Party. (Unsplash photo)

OFF TOPIC: Bread or cake, the rising cost of food is giving me indigestion

How do grocery chain CEOs square skyrocketing prices with massive profits?

As the cost of food continues to rise, grocery chains in Canada are reportedly making record profits. It’s time for the CEOs of these companies to explain themselves, says the federal New Democratic Party. (Unsplash photo)
B.C. Premier David Eby speaks in Vancouver, on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. A B.C. First Nation and the provincial government have signed what’s being called a historic agreement towards jointly managing land, water and resource development. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

OPINION: Eby government faces clear choice in first budget

From 1999 to 2016, British Columbia was one of the most fiscally responsible provinces in Canada

  • Feb 24, 2023
B.C. Premier David Eby speaks in Vancouver, on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. A B.C. First Nation and the provincial government have signed what’s being called a historic agreement towards jointly managing land, water and resource development. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre rises during Question Period, Tuesday, February 7, 2023 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld.

Uzelman: Is everything broken? Pierre Poilievre believes it is

A column by Bruce Uzelman

  • Feb 22, 2023
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre rises during Question Period, Tuesday, February 7, 2023 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld.
Hundreds of people march along Yale Road near Hodgins Avenue during a so-called Fraser Valley Freedom Rally on Saturday, April 3, 2021. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress file)

OPINION: The staggering socioeconomic costs of COVID anti-vaxxer behaviour

COVID-is-a-hoax crowd caused thousands more deaths, hundreds of millions in hospital costs: report

Hundreds of people march along Yale Road near Hodgins Avenue during a so-called Fraser Valley Freedom Rally on Saturday, April 3, 2021. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress file)
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