Bloody knives the last straw
Toddler drains 30-foot putt
'Snowpocalypse' hits PG
Backtrack on guns bill
Denied embassy service
Finance ministers meet
China: it's weather balloon
'Wolves' actor stays jailed
That's a lot of grub
US adds half million jobs
Why are eggs so expensive?
Taseko to up mine stake
Owls dominate opener
Blazers beat 'Hawks 5-1
Rockets, CMHA team up
Gary Glitter out of jail
Lucci 'not ready to date'
Nick Carter countersues
Weekly Commentary
Shut down the pipeline
I'm not talking about oil and gas. I'm referring to the illegal smuggling of desperate and vulnerable human beings into our country. The perpetrators of this...
A head spinning week
Tuesday we opened a transition residence for people working their way back 'home'. Many of you will remember the Willow Motel. For years it was the Okanagan's...
Is good news bad?
Did you catch the latest headlines this week on the job numbers? Most of the mainstream national news outlets loudly declared that after months of job gains...
Horses, bears and taxes
Okay, so what do you do with a guy who was a university hockey star, captain of his team, turned down an offer from the Detroit Red Wings, went to university...
Up in space, down to earth
This week's constit report to you goes to the stars and back. 'Space’, the last frontier was the focus at a great ceremony this week up in the hills of our...
Endangered species?
Politicians are always on the endangered species list. In danger of being wiped out at election time and that is a good thing (I don't mean being 'wiped out'. I...
Saving goats and stopping boats
Lots of stuff to report again this week, so grab that coffee or tea cup and follow the bouncing ball. I was in Howe Sound to announce the commencement of work...
Kafka lives
Well, okay, Franz Kafka died back in the 1920's but the absurd bureaucratic situations he painfully described in some of his short stories live on. One of those...
Bovine boozers unite!
"Why can't they just leave our cows alone?" That's a sentiment some constituents have expressed to me lately. With the supposedly compelling issues of the day...
Do the math
Historians and futurists are agreed and their agreement will have increasing implications for students and retirees right here in the Okanagan, Nicola and...
A toast from coast to coast
Interested in what people are saying from West to East? Within the span of one week I've had the opportunity to 'meet and greet' in BC, Ontario and Nova Scotia....
Paying the price
Here in the Okanagan, Nicola and Highland Valleys we know there's a price that is sometimes paid for living in Paradise. In my constituency report last week I...
Census forms and firestorms
Trevor Linden, Duncan Keith, Pat Quinn and many other hockey greats lit up our constituency this weekend and what a show they all put on for us. Thanks to the...
A Tale of two heroes
I'll never forget the day Maurice (the Rocket) Richard signed my hockey stick. I was 8-years-old, in a long line up with other similar worshipers. The Rocket...
When bad guys sue
You gotta shake your head when one of the worst criminals in Canadian history threatens to sue you. I'm thinking, has the world turned upside down here? We...
Heroes and zeroes
Did you see the news clip of the guy jumping the violent goon at the G-20? Amazing…as fellow masked cowards stood there cheering for their thuggish comrade...
Canada at the podium
I wish you could have been there with us, in the room with Prime Minister Harper and Hu Jintao, President of China. Not that there were top secrets being...
Bombers and freedoms
Aggressive police work has lead to the arrest of three men charged with the recent firebombing of a bank in Ottawa. This has been a topic of conversation here...
Buying local by choice, not by law
Farmers' markets. Here in our Okanagan-Coquihalla region we have some of the best. I love strolling down the lines of kiosks laden with fresh produce. And who...
Pushing back the global tax
We did it! The major countries of the world had been saying for months that all banks must get hit with a global tax. Prime Minister Harper and our Government...