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September 16, 2020 in Feedback // LETTER – Downtown Kamloops is a mess and breathing its last breath
September 16, 2020 in Bepple // BEPPLE – Shouldn’t homeless people have a place to sit, too?
September 16, 2020 in Editorials // EDITORIAL – If Horgan calls a snap election, he doesn’t deserve to win
September 15, 2020 in Ginta // GINTA – If we are to see a better future, small steps are no longer enough
September 15, 2020 in Editorials // EDITORIAL – Surely, we can sacrifice trick or treating this year

LETTER – Downtown Kamloops is a mess and breathing its last breath

In your Armchair Mayor article of Aug. 15, you reference a quote by (former) Vancouver Mayor Philip Owen, who said that Kamloops has a “…downtown that’s dying.” While the statement was made over 20 years ago, you go on to say that you feel [Continue]
BEPPLE – Shouldn’t homeless people have a place to sit, too?

THERE ARE THINGS we do because of bylaws, and then there are things we do just because they are the right thing to do. We have bylaws for dog licenses, noise, and unsightly premises. But somethings we don’t need bylaws for because people just do the [Continue]
EDITORIAL – If Horgan calls a snap election, he doesn’t deserve to win

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SPECULATION IS RAMPANT that Premier John Horgan will announce a provincial election tomorrow. It might just be the media feeding off each other but it certainly feels like a possibility. Only a couple of weeks ago I was [Continue]
GINTA – If we are to see a better future, small steps are no longer enough

IT’S TOUGH TO SINGLE OUT GOOD NEWS these days. It feels like every morning since the new year has started, we are waking up to yet another day of bleak stories of our world, each morphing into an appropriate level of stress and concern for what’s to [Continue]

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ISSUES – The past isn’t a script that we set down in non-revisable stone

September 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

Vandalizing public spaces under the delusion that such acts make yesterday a better today is sad-sack politics that fosters democratic weakness FOR HER BOOK Talking Stones: [Continue]
POLITICS – With Harris pick, Biden reaches out to young black Americans

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SUZUKI – Four-day workweek can spur necessary transformation

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SUZUKI – Coal power should be relegated to the ash heap of history

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LETTER – Downtown Kamloops is a mess and breathing its last breath

September 16, 2020 // 5 Comments

In your Armchair Mayor article of Aug. 15, you reference a quote by (former) Vancouver Mayor Philip Owen, who said that Kamloops has a “…downtown that’s dying.” [Continue]
LETTER – B.C.’s forests belong to the people, not corporate shareholders

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LETTER – TteS raises concern about someone impersonating chief

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LETTER – Nothing has changed; the answer to the Ajax mine is still ‘No’

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