CHARBONNEAU – Make the unvaccinated pay but forget the tax
THE UNVACCINATED are a burden on our health care system. Those who refuse to get a shot against COVID-19 use a proportionally high percentage of health care resources. We, [Continue]
Local Voices
BEPPLE – City’s housing strategy needs to consider shrinking families
WHEN PEOPLE SAY they want housing for families, it’s important to think of what that means. In the 2016 census by Stats Canada, there were just under 37,000 households in [Continue]
SARAI – A New Year’s resolution to lobby for more effective crime-fighting
By BILL SARAI City councillor, Kamloops IN MY FIRST council column of the year, I would like to wish everyone a very happy and healthy new year. As most people start the year [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Housing affordability has improved for wealthy, worsened for low-income
WITH THE SOARING COST of housing, you wouldn’t think anyone could be further ahead. But for the wealthy, that’s the case. That’s what Prof. Yushu Zhu of Simon Fraser [Continue]
BEPPLE – Previous political experience a prerequisite for running for mayor
IF YOU WANT to be mayor of Kamloops, you’d better already be a politician. Or that’s what one would think looking at the past. In 1986, John Dormer, a local [Continue]
KNOX – A year of fan mail – ‘I used to love reading your columns but…’
“[BLEEP] OFF AND DIE you piece of [bleep].” Alas, that was the entire message, meaning there was no way to know what I had done to inflame the anonymous writer. He [Continue]
MILOBAR – Delays in getting COVID support to businesses is unacceptable
IT’S AN INCREDIBLY TOUGH TIME TO BE A BUSINESS OWNER IN B.C., as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have an impact on operations and revenues. Many are struggling to stay [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Canada’s divide with the U.S. will widen in 2022
THE GAP BETWEEN Canadian and American values will grow wider in 2022. We were relatively happy with our neighbours until the arrival of Donald Trump in 2017. Then the [Continue]
BEPPLE – There’s a downside to the increase in our property assessments
I’M RICH. Or, more correctly, I’m richer. Like every property owner in Kamloops, I’ve seen a significant increase in the assessed value of my home. From last year [Continue]
FORSETH – This consumer is fed up with the Great Grocery Ripoff
I AM GETTING more and more discouraged by the lower quality of products, while still paying the same prices or higher. Just a FEW examples would be added amounts of liquid to [Continue]
FORSETH – Horgan gov’t in no hurry to remind us of carbon tax increase
IT SEEMS INEVITABLE that this government will continue, over and over again, to give me fodder to chastise them – although in this case I, along with nearly all British [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – ‘Supply chain’ should be a contender for phrase of the year
I’M PICKING ‘SUPPLY CHAIN’ as phrase of the year. While there were other strong candidates, the stark frailty of supply chains and its psychological backlash [Continue]
GINTA – Eleven lessons from the year that’s just ending
I SAW THIS CARTOON the other day. A group of people were cautiously opening a door by pushing it with a long-handle broom. The door had 2022 written on it and the caption [Continue]
BEPPLE – Here’s to those who got us through 2021, and will again in 2022
JANUARY IS NAMED after the Roman God Janus, who had two faces. One looked ahead, the other behind. So Jan. 1, which most of the of the world celebrates as New Year’s Day, [Continue]
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