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PETERS – In an age when we know all the answers, we still love a mystery

November 17, 2018 // 0 Comments

WITH ALL OF THE world’s knowledge now available on the internet, it can be kind of jarring to come across an answer we don’t immediately know. Harprit Singh sent [Continue]

MILOBAR – Don’t be fooled by PR’s claims about sunshine and roses

November 16, 2018 // 10 Comments

By PETER MILOBAR MLA, Kamloops-North Thompson THE PRO-PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION (PR) campaigners in this province will have you believe that changing B.C.’s electoral [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – StatsCan and the politicization of information gathering

November 15, 2018 // 0 Comments

STATSCAN NEEDS to update its operating system and reboot. They now operate on a paper system in which only 40 per cent of surveys on spending habits are returned. Those that [Continue]

BEPPLE – $10-a-day child care will be John Horgan’s legacy

November 14, 2018 // 1 Comment

DAVE BARRETT hasn’t been the premier of British Columbia for over 40 years. But when he passed away in February of this year, his legacy lived on. In three and a half [Continue]

GINTA – The Remembrance Day files: it feels like family

November 12, 2018 // 1 Comment

‘In Flanders fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns [Continue]

KNOX – Generations hand down tales of war and sacrifice

November 11, 2018 // 0 Comments

SGT. BILL BOLDT’S letter, penned while convalescing in France, began on a reassuring note. “Now Sis, don’t be alarmed,” he wrote, referring to the Red Cross [Continue]

PETERS – Federal government’s VAC spending does little to honour veterans

November 10, 2018 // 0 Comments

IT’S OFTEN SAID that a person’s true priorities only come through when you look at how they spend their money. The same is true of governments. For example, the [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Ten years after the Great Recession, nothing’s changed

November 8, 2018 // 1 Comment

A DECADE LATER, the crisis that threatened to take down the global financial order seems like a bad dream. Now it’s business as usual. In 2008, banking institutions creaked [Continue]

BEPPLE – Throwing more police at a problem isn’t necessarily the answer

November 7, 2018 // 2 Comments

THIS WEEK, the new city council of Surrey announced they were getting rid of the RCMP as their police force, and replacing it with a City policing force. Their citizens are [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – How are we to feel safe with more oil being shipped by rail?

November 6, 2018 // 3 Comments

Debate during Question Period in the B.C. Legislature on Monday, Nov. 5, 2018 between Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone and Environment Minister George Heyman, who took [Continue]

GINTA – Let us always remember all that they did for us

November 5, 2018 // 1 Comment

MY GRANDFATHER was a WWII veteran. He died when I was nine, and so did the stories that he might have been inclined to share. I have old photos of him in uniform, and I know [Continue]

KNOX – Synagogue slaughter proof that hatred is still among us

November 4, 2018 // 2 Comments

SEVEN YEARS AGO, after someone spray-painted ugly black swastikas on five grave markers, I wandered around Victoria’s Jewish cemetery, looking at some of the names. Here [Continue]

PETERS – Kamloops election results should put an end to ward system talk

November 3, 2018 // 0 Comments

WE’RE REALLY NOT ALL THAT DIFFERENT across this city. Kamloops This Week printed a helpful little breakdown this week that showed how different neighbourhoods voted in [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Canada’s Roma have a rich history, including in Kamloops

November 1, 2018 // 0 Comments

THE ROMANI PEOPLE of Canada have been met with both fascination and suspicion. For more than a century, Canadians have been fascinated by the colourful bands of “Gypsies” [Continue]