Andrew Holota

COLUMN: The costs of a harm reduction ban

COLUMN: The costs of a harm reduction ban

Providing clean needles and crack pipes to addicts doesn’t “encourage” or “help” them to continue their habit...

COLUMN: The costs of a harm reduction ban
COLUMN: Waiting for a new game next season

COLUMN: An unsettling exercise in reality

Ever had one of those moments when what you see before you is simply devoid of any immediately identifiable logic?

COLUMN: Waiting for a new game next season
COLUMN: Waiting for a new game next season

COLUMN: Waiting for a new game next season

After grinding out the goods for the past several months, the rumour mill can finally power down and send its hard-working staff home.

COLUMN: Waiting for a new game next season
COLUMN: Taking the lead on leg-hold traps

COLUMN: Motoring in the land of mariachi music

I’m guessing the lack of windows may have been a cost-cutting measure, if not a sensible nod to the tropical climate.

COLUMN: Taking the lead on leg-hold traps
COLUMN: A step beyond tightening medical pot grows

COLUMN: A step beyond tightening medical pot grows

We all know the headaches that illegal pot grow-ops cause for communities, their citizens, and their emergency services.

COLUMN: A step beyond tightening medical pot grows
COLUMN: Cash control should be the focus in 2013

COLUMN: Cash control should be the focus in 2013

We’ve gone through a year of significant change at city hall. New mayor, new councillor, and now, a new city manager.

COLUMN: Cash control should be the focus in 2013
COLUMN: The eternal (culinary) question

COLUMN: Linked in to the spirit of the season

Some time back, some colleagues convinced me to sign up with LinkedIn, one of the (then) new buzz-wares making the rounds.

COLUMN: The eternal (culinary) question
COLUMN: The eternal (culinary) question

COLUMN: The eternal (culinary) question

As much pleasure as we “chefs” derive from preparing good food, the sheer delight of feeding the hungry wears a bit thin.

COLUMN: The eternal (culinary) question

COLUMN: Sometimes simple trumps high-tech

It occurred to me, as I was zipping up my camo wind jacket, that us outdoorsy types have it pretty good nowadays.

COLUMN: The Locker Scare, and the evil orb

COLUMN: The Locker Scare, and the evil orb

There were a lot of things that scared the kid out of me during my first days of high school.

COLUMN: The Locker Scare, and the evil orb
COLUMN: Domestics and the office environment

COLUMN: In the presence of the absence of order

Funny how we all have our own sense of order, or absence thereof.

COLUMN: Domestics and the office environment
COLUMN: Beyond the Kony 2012 phenomenon

COLUMN: Getting back to teaching and learning

The B.C. Teachers’ Federation will have made its point – it can’t stand provincial governments telling it what to do.

COLUMN: Beyond the Kony 2012 phenomenon
COLUMN: Good riddance to long-gun registry

COLUMN: Good riddance to long-gun registry

I have an urge to go outside and fire a gun in the air. That would be ill-advised, of course

COLUMN: Good riddance to long-gun registry
COLUMN: A departure from digital

COLUMN: A departure from digital

Taking two 14 year-old teenagers away from technology

COLUMN: A departure from digital
COLUMN: Memories rise above the ashes

COLUMN: The ‘virtue’ of good communication

Last week, we learned that American television is interested in virgins – actually, four in particular, all of whom hail from Abbotsford.

COLUMN: Memories rise above the ashes
COLUMN: The outrage of Olson and the justice system

COLUMN: The outrage of Olson and the justice system

The Beast of B.C. – serial child killer Clifford Robert Olson – is days away from dying of cancer. When the last breath leaves the body of this 71-year-old psychopath, it will be the final page of Canada’s most horrific criminal case, but many questions will remain.

COLUMN: The outrage of Olson and the justice system
COLUMN: Digitized dating in the teen cyberworld

COLUMN: Digitized dating in the teen cyberworld

Ultimately, it has to happen, even in the world of “undating.”
The Split. The Break-up.

COLUMN: Digitized dating in the teen cyberworld
Safe at second

Safe at second

Junior Chiefs host Nanaimo Pirates

Safe at second

COLUMN: Sanity of the justice system is in question

On Sunday, April 6, 2008, Darcie Clarke returned to her Merritt trailerhome…

EDITORIAL: Dam the money flow

The aging Ruskin Dam on the north side of the Fraser could be on the last chapter of its considerable history, if Rich Coleman has his way.