Environment

KNOX – Why the provincial government wants to expand wolf-trapping program

January 14, 2018 // 1 Comment

THE PROVINCIAL government wants to extend the wolf-trapping season on Vancouver Island. To which you reply: We trap wolves here? Yes, we do, which some people think is [Continue]

ENERGY – Fireplace bans endanger lives during emergency situations

December 25, 2017 // 4 Comments

By PETER SHAWN TAYLOR Contributor Canadians for Affordable Energy Oh the weather outside is frightful, But the fire is so delightful. Since we’ve no place to go, Let it [Continue]

EDITORIAL – The mine that divided a community is dead; let healing begin

December 14, 2017 // 10 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THURSDAY’S ANNOUNCEMENT that the Ajax project is dead might be the best news for the Kamloops region since the coming [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Horgan’s reluctant decision to approve Site C was the right call

December 12, 2017 // 5 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SO, SITE C is a go. Which leaves about half the people in B.C. happy as clams, and the other half mad as hatters. The [Continue]

GINTA – Why a different approach is needed this holiday season and beyond

December 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

LAST WEEK, the conservation group Sea Legacy (co-founded by Canadian-born photographer and marine biologist Paul Nicklen and his partner Cristina Mittermeier, also a [Continue]

VIEW FROM THE WILD – What to do with the McArthur Island golf course?

November 27, 2017 // 6 Comments

By JESSE RITCEY Kamloops Naturalist Club Golf at McArthur Island has come to end. What will come next? To answer that question, the Kamloops Naturalist Club has looked into [Continue]