Local Voices

McQUARRIE – Imagine if a government told you exactly what it is spending

July 21, 2019 // 1 Comment

IMAGINE, IF JUST FOR A MOMENT, if just for a moment, an op/ed writer beginning a column with a headline that states, Local Politicians Get It Right. Impossible you would [Continue]

PETERS – Apollo astronauts embodied human instinct for exploration

July 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE APOLLO 11 mission that saw humans land on the moon for the first time, it is appropriate that we ask the question, what are we doing in space? [Continue]

BEPPLE – Time for some fresh faces on our currency; who should it be?

July 17, 2019 // 2 Comments

THIS WEEK’S ANNOUNCEMENT by Britain that their £50 note would bear the likeness of Alan Turing was heartening for so many reasons. Turing was an extraordinary [Continue]

GINTA – Common sense can make our roads safer, but that’s not enough

July 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

THERE IS HARDLY a week or weekend that goes by without news of car crashes on our highways or within city limits. One too many of them are fatal. Whether you are a driver, [Continue]

STONE – Horgan’s handling of cannabis stores has become laughing stock

July 15, 2019 // 1 Comment

By TODD STONE MLA, Kamloops-South Thompson IT HAS BEEN CLEAR since Oct. 17, 2018, that John Horgan’s NDP government did not have an effective plan in mind for the [Continue]

PETERS – Plastic bags get a bad rap, but we need better options to handle them

July 13, 2019 // 1 Comment

WHEN IT COMES TO the plastic bags we get at the grocery store, the term ‘single-use’ may be a misnomer. Most of the time, it’s really easy to find a second or third use [Continue]

BEPPLE – Kamloops has an opportunity to do both growth and green

July 10, 2019 // 5 Comments

LAST WEEK, at Kamloops City Council, Mayor Ken Christian said “If this is a choice between green or growth I’m gonna go with growth.“ I completely disagree. Green [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Right or wrong, why take a chance on climate change?

July 7, 2019 // 3 Comments

IT WAS DURING one of those coffee shop conversations when I was asked what I thought would happen if my opinion on climate change was eventually proven wrong. “Being the [Continue]

KNOX – Derelict house leaves a bad taste in neighbourhood

July 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

FOUR YEARS LATER, there is still no sign of life on Mars. The derelict house that caused nearby residents to rise up in one of Victoria’s more elegant protests remains [Continue]

PETERS – With the bottle cap challenge, at least no one ate laundry detergent

July 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

KEEPING UP WITH VIRAL PHENOMENA is not exactly my strength, but it was impossible this week to escape videos of the bottle cap challenge. In these videos, celebrities set a [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – As Canada goes nuclear, we’d rather not think about it

July 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

CANADA IS THIRD IN THE WORLD in replacing fossil fuels with nuclear. France and Sweden have replaced almost all of their fossil-fuelled generated electricity with nuclear [Continue]

MILOBAR – ‘Top-up’ of electric vehicle rebate program is actually a reduction

July 4, 2019 // 4 Comments

By PETER MILOBAR MLA, Kamloops-North Thompson WE RECENTLY SAW ANOTHER pathetic attempt by John Horgan and the NDP to fool British Columbians — this time, with regards to [Continue]

BEPPLE – Political will can take us from gas guzzlers to electric vehicles

July 3, 2019 // 3 Comments

I GREW UP WHEN KIDS bounced around in the back seats of cars because there were no seatbelts, let alone child car seats. Except for one time when the family car went flying [Continue]

GINTA – If we mean all that we say today….

July 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

THE AIR SMELLS SWEET and sticky; it smells of soapberries, though they are mere green blobs right now, so all I smell is a promise; I like it, it has a tinge of humbleness to [Continue]