Goodbye… for now.
I’m hanging up my keyboard. At least for now. Perhaps when my work week is shaved down and I regain a writing passion I’ll want to return. And perhaps there will still be a media platform willing to publish what
Read More →It’s not about screwing the insurance company – Reflecting on 12 years of writing
Paul reflects on the last twelve years he's spent writing over 620 columns.
Read More →National Day of Remembrance for Road Crash Victims
In Kelowna, a Day of Remembrance for Road Crash Victims will be held Wednesday evening, November 21, 2018, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Orchard Park Mall parking lot, corner of Highway 97 and Dilworth Avenue.
Read More →Crashes aren’t accidents
The word "accident", and it’s connotation of unaccountable inevitability, is getting in the way of taking important steps to fix an ongoing, and growing, road safety disaster.
Read More →Word choices matter
Society has been learning about how the use of certain words and phrases, loaded with baggage, might perpetuate systemic harms. My pet irritation is with the use of the word "accident" when referring to road traffic incidents.
Read More →Achieving Justice for 10 Years!
A baby faced picture was published with my first column on January 7, 2007. That yellowing column, along with the one marking my fifth anniversary, are framed and on display in my office reception area. This one, marking my tenth,
Read More →Lawyer’s apology
“A person in your position should become a little better informed before writing such an ignorant article that tries to tarnish a whole industry”. Those biting words came to me from a reader of my last column, Dale, who has
Read More →Anniversary column
Dear Friends, This one’s “all about me”, though some might suggest that I’m always “all about me” and I would have to, as a matter of my personal philosophy, agree. I consider you a friend because you are reading this
Read More →Season to count blessings
Those familiar with this column might recall that my mother is battling cancer. She is still with us, though her cycles of chemotherapy treatments don’t come with a hope for a cure and will inevitably fail to hold the cancer
Read More →The biggest thing below columnist’s belt is his column total
Another year of column writing behind me, it is time for my annual “all about me” column. Narcissistic of me? If you read my last column the way my father-in-law did, that adjective might jump to mind. He chuckled as
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