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February 20, 2020 in Editorials // EDITORIAL – Slapping PST on pop may be a tax grab but it’s a good one
February 20, 2020 in Ginta // GINTA – We need driving laws that protect pedestrians first
February 19, 2020 in Editorials // EDITORIAL – As the winter muck recedes, rainbow crosswalk emerges
February 19, 2020 in In the House // IN THE HOUSE – Liberals to blame for letting Coastal GasLink issue fester
February 19, 2020 in Feedback // NATIONAL PULSE – Support for Trans Mountain expansion drops as costs rise

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GINTA – We need driving laws that protect pedestrians first

February 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

A WHILE BACK I read a book that was as poignant as it was scary. It is called A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention, by Matt Richtel. I [Continue]

IN THE HOUSE – Liberals to blame for letting Coastal GasLink issue fester

February 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

Remarks by Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod during emergency debate on nation-wide protests against Coastal GasLinke pipeline, Feb. 18, 2020. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE [Continue]

BEPPLE – Rejecting subdivisions means higher lot prices, more urban sprawl

February 19, 2020 // 5 Comments

LAST WEEK, Kamloops City council came out on the side of a neighbourhood. There was a public hearing on a rezoning request to subdivide a lot in Dallas to allow three houses [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Rona Ambrose – best leader the Conservatives never had

February 17, 2020 // 0 Comments

FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN OUT of federal politics since 2017 and has no intentions for running for leader of the Conservative Party, Rona Ambrose remains popular. Even the [Continue]

KNOX – Viral message – Keep calm and wash your hands

February 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

TO REPEAT: In 2003, a total of 44 Canadians died of SARS, and we panicked. By contrast, 8,511 of us died from garden variety flu and pneumonia in 2018, and we yawned. As [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – Armchair Mayor makes it into the Throne Speech debate

February 15, 2020 // 2 Comments

An excerpt from a speech by Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Peter Milobar during the Throne Speech debate this week in the Legislature: Now, there’s a gentleman, a former [Continue]

PETERS – This land is their land

February 15, 2020 // 2 Comments

AS I HAVE READ about the dispute over Wet’suwet’en land and the Coastal GasLink pipeline, I have had quite a hard time coming to some conclusions in my own mind. As one [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – ‘When will the premier do something to end these protests?’

February 14, 2020 // 1 Comment

Excerpt from Question Period in B.C. Legislature on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. A. Wilkinson: Yesterday we saw the Granville Street bridge blocked for a few hours. Thousands of [Continue]

BEPPLE – Welcome to Kamloops’ new group of low-carbon activists

February 12, 2020 // 5 Comments

THANK GOODNESS for Kamloops activists. More specifically, thank goodness for the Kamloops’ newest group of activists, the Kamloops Association for Low-Carbon [Continue]

FORSETH – All levels of government must get illegal protests under control

February 12, 2020 // 3 Comments

WHEN IT COMES to my thoughts and beliefs around what is happening with the on-going and continual illegal blockades (including city streets, public highways, and even rail [Continue]

GINTA – Online food shopping – what might get lost in the process

February 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

I REMEMBER GOING GROCERY SHOPPING with my parents. Okay, let’s call it tagging along. We’d go to the farmer’s market where the chance of getting samples from smiling [Continue]

KNOX – The dilemma of dealing with porn in public

February 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT WASN’T JUST that the guy was watching porn on his phone, in public. It’s that the porn was of a particularly bizarre and graphic nature, the kind where the average [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Answer to the crisis in small-town B.C. – another report

February 9, 2020 // 2 Comments

THERE IS A CRISIS in small town B.C. and while not unexpected in rural communities built and sustained solely by the resource sector it isn’t any less painful or real for [Continue]

PETERS – Some grace is in order for Carson Hadwin

February 8, 2020 // 1 Comment

IT HAS BEEN BOTH SAD AND FASCINATING to see people contort themselves into different pretzels, trying to find the most cynical angle to this week’s story of a boy getting [Continue]