IN THE HOUSE – Pipeline process wasn’t flawed; Liberals mishandled it
Excerpt from comments by Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod during debate in the House on Friday, Sept. 21, 2018 on Private Member’s Bill S-245, “an Act to [Continue]
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FORSETH – It’s logical: keep organic waste out of landfills, extend their life
TODAY, AN EXCITING POST filled with intrigue, suspense, ethics, chaos and more!!! No … actually it’s about GARBAGE. I know, NOT exciting at all, however a topic with is [Continue]
BEPPLE – Favourite age to become a candidate for City council is the 40s
IN KAMLOOPS, there are almost equal numbers of people in their 20s, as people in their 30s, 40s, 50s or 60s. There are about 12,000 people who are in their 20s, and similar [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Politics can be a cold, hard, cruel world
IN LAST WEEK’S COLUMN, Councillor Sinclair took me to task for not mentioning what a great job she was doing responding to emails and phone calls. Previous to that, she [Continue]
KNOX – Pot-smoking golfers, the Rogue Cow of Metchosin and campaign bucks
HEADING OFF for a bit, time to update some earlier columns: Do pot and putting mix? Depends who you ask. You might recall the August column about an online survey in which [Continue]
BEPPLE – The local government that nobody notices has an election too
LOST IN THE somewhat muted excitement of the elections for City councils here in Kamloops and across B.C. is the race for regional directors for the electoral areas of the [Continue]
PETERS – It’s no wonder we hear ‘known to police’ so often in news releases
KAMLOOPS RESIDENTS are getting tired of the phrase, “known to police.” Hearing it mentioned in every crime-related news story elicits groans and eye rolls from [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Are mysterious ‘fast radio bursts’ from a cosmic event?
THE RADIO TELESCOPE NEAR PENTICTON has detected signals that were sent from some mysterious object billions of light years away, at a time when the Earth was so hot that [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Getting the cold shoulder from City Hall
LOOKING BACK at past columns and thinking about trends in the comments, messages and emails, I’ve noticed how a number of them seem to come down to issues of accountability [Continue]
GINTA – Stories of fall magic and why we should be part of them
FALL HAS A SPECIAL place in my heart. When I was a kid, until I left my parents’ home to go to university, as soon as the grapes would start to ripen, I’d go around the [Continue]
KNOX – The ironic spillover effect of halting the Trans Mountain pipeline
STANDING BESIDE a small array of equipment that, to a layman, looked more suitable to power-washing your driveway than cleaning up after the Exxon Valdez, Canada’s [Continue]
PETERS – Time for Kamloops MLAs to turn their attention from TRU to SD73
THE LAST SCHOOL TO BE BUILT in the Kamloops-Thompson School District was Pacific Way Elementary in 2000. In the 18 years that have passed since then, there has been a [Continue]
NSBIA – The Trans Mountain decision and what it means for business
From the Kamloops North Shore Business Improvement Association newsletter of Sept. 5, 2018: THE POLITICAL POSTURING and hype has died down and now the reality of last [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – One power grid solves the green energy problem
SOLAR AND WIND energy suffer from a storage problem. They produce in abundance, often too much, when the wind blows and the sun shines. Storage of that abundance is one [Continue]
