Local Voices

FORSETH – Jobs, fiscal responsibility, social conscience should be easy fit

August 20, 2017 // 4 Comments

THE BEAUTY beauty of having Google Alerts set in place, for things relating B.C. Politics, is that I will often times get notices on stories that I may not otherwise have [Continue]

KNOX – Note to the racist right: Stop wearing my khakis

August 20, 2017 // 1 Comment

GREAT, NOW I have to burn my khaki pants. Guess I’ll use my tiki torch. This is one of the unintended consequences of the racist right running amok in Charlottesville: They [Continue]

PETERS – Rage all you want; our society is changing

August 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

THERE MAY BE no stronger force known to humanity than the force of societal change. Our society will evolve in the face of all efforts to the contrary. For too many, the idea [Continue]

AJAX – ‘We urge you to take action to suspend the permitting process’

August 18, 2017 // 7 Comments

Kamloops City Coun. Denis Walsh has filed a notice of motion on the environmental assessment process for the proposed Ajax mine. Here’s the full text of the motion, [Continue]

COLLINS – You sure can’t please everyone when it comes to alerts

August 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

THE CITY of Kamloops put out a news release this week, giving people the latest on the Elephant Hill The wildfire which is slowly creeping towards Kamloops. The idea of the [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Cry for Venezuela

August 17, 2017 // 1 Comment

THE DREAM of a socialist Venezuela has turned into a nightmare. It’s depressing to see the disintegration of President Hugo Chávez’s attempt at political reform. [Continue]

FORSETH – Voters are desperate for elected officials to quit with the BS

August 15, 2017 // 2 Comments

TODAY IS a little bit of this … and a little bit of that. In between paying bills and checking our family budget online, a diverted a few times to check out things [Continue]

GINTA – Magic is better under clear skies and in clean air

August 14, 2017 // 1 Comment

IT HAPPENED that we could not easily evade on my husband’s three days off work as most of the clean air destinations were booked. Plus the sky around here got clear on [Continue]

KNOX – On the anniversary of the horror in Nagasaki, a story of survival

August 13, 2017 // 1 Comment

LAST WEEKEND, Rudi Hoenson planted a seedling in Oak Bay. It came from a tree that, improbably, survived a nuclear blast in Japan — just like Rudi himself. You might have [Continue]

NEWSTROM – Getting acquainted with a very deer resident of Princeton

August 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

THIS COLUMN is reflexive. By that I mean it reflects the values and experiences even the fox-paws of the writer, me, Elon Newstrom. We also comprehend that raw experience is [Continue]

PETERS – Enjoy Ribfest… or don’t

August 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

Dr. MICHAEL MEHTA is a reasonable man. An expert in his field of environmental studies, he presents a unique perspective that not all of us hold, but he deserves to be heard [Continue]

COLLINS – Some people always take the time to care

August 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

SOME PEOPLEe care about people. They are just built to put you in a position where you feel good about talking to them, and they always seem to respond no matter how busy [Continue]

FORSETH – NDP opposition to pipeline could kill high-paying union jobs

August 10, 2017 // 7 Comments

NOT eco-extremists … NOT eco- terrorists … BUT certainly the BC NDP, propped up by Andrew Weavers Green Party, could perhaps now be called eco-radicals! What else [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Good riddance, B.C. LNG

August 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

THERE WERE lots of things wrong with former Premier Christy Clark’s plan to produce liquefied natural gas but let me start with the good. At least it was a plan that labour [Continue]