WestKelowna.com - West Kelowna. Right Now!

You have never seen that logo before… that is our number zero which is about what we thought of the City of Kelowna’s decision to get even cozier with the designer of a controversial logo… without having ever answered important questions.

It ain’t really St. Patrick’s Day if you remember it tomorrow….

As in 24 hour suspension. How do you punctuate that in a case like this?

is your number…. Can we make an issue out of nothing? YOU BET WE CAN!

“I am disgusted to read what this creep did to these girls but only because of what happened to them, not for the reporting. This article clearly shows the wonderful strength these women have (and what an idiot Stephens is) and my hat goes off to them for their courage. I think it is important other people (women especially) have a chance to read articles like this so if it ever happens to them, they know what worked in this situation….” —JenW

So many numbers we could have chosen from the Olympics, but we chose the best one…

Developers and those financing the developments take on calculated risks based on current and projected market conditions. Gluts of unsold inventories don’t happen in typical market conditions.…

Those opposed to this plan are left-wing, anti-capitalist ideologues who can’t stand to see progress or profit. They would far rather we all return to the dark ages, pick roots and berries for food, and worship the great green god…

Thing is, if we use that intergenerational trauma rationale as the reason for our continued struggles/destruction, exactly where does it get us?

Dead, but with a great excuse for our demise? Drug addicted, but with a great excuse for our addiction? A people filled with teenaged mothers, but with a great excuse for why we simply perpetuate the same cycle? See, we can continue to use, like Haiti, colonial mistreatment and governmental antipathy as an excuse for every failure under the sun but it doesn’t help any of our kids to get college degrees or any of our teens to get out of the suicide-laden rut that we’re in.

That’s how long it took for an Oliver student to watch her entire classroom sink off the coast of Brazil…