Student's killer on parole
Charges after investigation
Hostage was on captor 
Regulating power prices
Gen X is raking it in
LeBlanc laying groundwork
US vetoes UN resolution
$100M Nassar settlement
12 Trump jurors picked
Rates slow green economy
Vicinity hires president,
Record housing starts
Warriors ready for Round 2
Kalamalka Bowl cancelled
Rockets live to fight on
Rihanna's parenting ‘hack’
Tarantino scraps film
Munn talks cancer battle
Old as dirt. Twice as gritty.
Seasoned hello
Oh no. Remembrance Day has passed and that can mean only one awful thing: It’s time for The Annual Bombardment of Everything Christmas. Ahem, including,...
Untitled
In theory when you take a break from work you return feeling fresh and eager. You fully intend to stop being a slacker. However, ‘theory’ is just...
Finding a way home
What is home? Ask a hundred people and you’ll get a hundred different answers, but what they’ll have in common is this: all want to be there. This...
Cause-O-Rama
Hard to choose a topic this week. Teachers or ice buckets? Strikes or causes? Something that drives me crazy or something that drives me insane? It was a tough...
He walks on water
The other day I was searching for songs to play on my guitar, and came across an old favourite called ‘He Walks On Water’:...
Shop-nots
There was a time many years ago when I was willing to go shopping. ‘Willing’ meant I’d go if nothing could stop it from happening, and the...
I'm sick
The other day I took a life-changing test on facebook. Oh come on, stop dissing facebook tests, how else would I know what kind of appliance I am (blender) or...
Baby, you're so hot
There shouldn’t be a need to write this particular column, yet for some insane reason there is, because no matter how many times the message is put out...
The day I shamed B.C.
I have a confession to make. Several years ago, my daughter and I were on a summer road trip traveling across the Canadian prairies. In Saskatchewan we had to...
Run-on, little sentence, run on
I have recently rediscovered my fondness for the run-on sentence, it is something that I’ve neglected for many years now, years that were, truth be told,...
Fanatic dog owners
The Fanatic Dog Owner, a subspecies of Pet Owner, is a growing branch of pet ownership that is daily reaching new levels of of frenzied emotions, enabled by...
No complaints please
Someone on Facebook posted a challenge the other day, for people to go 24 hours without complaining. I thought, well, that’s a piece of cake. Easy as...
It's Sunny inside
First up: As you can see, I have returned like the proverbial bad penny. For those who wondered where in hell I was, all I can say: alien abduction. For those...
Where are the clowns?
In a shocking disclosure, news that clowns have been put on the endangered species list has triggered panic in the once-thriving clown industry. ...
GoPro Jo
I was given a GoPro Hero 3+ Black for my birthday this year. A GoPro is not a regular camera, it is an action camera for adventure-seekers: bungee jumpers,...
The crazy one
My column this week is an ode to my Andrew, my grandson, my kindred spirit. He is a boy who just turned eight last week. Eight! Since the day he was born,...
Needles abound
It happens every year, typically starting in late fall. You’re reading the news and suddenly there it is, the annual ‘Uh-oh, it’s flu...
Week after Christmas
'Twas the week after Christmas, and all through the cabin, Each creature was tired, and all of them crabbin’. The stockings lay savaged on the...
On a quest
Welcome to The Jo Slade Christmas Romp O’ Good Will, Eggnog and Other Stuff Too Merry For Words column. Since my curmudgeon-esque Christmas column two...
Christmas curmudgeon
Ho. Ho. Ho. It’s December. My quest at this time of year is to find ways to maintain my elusive delicate-like-a-flower ‘Christmas...
