AND THEN there were four. With current councillor Dieter Dudy throwing his hat in the ring for the mayor’s race in the upcoming October municipal election, Kamloops now has [Continue]
THERE IS CONCERN in Kamloops that social issues such as drug addiction and mental illness are growing. There are daily calls that more be done. This week’s announcement [Continue]
DATA IS A CORE to good policy for cities. We see it again and again from the simplest to the most complex. When cities want to make road changes, they measure [Continue]
ON MARCH 3, the Government of Canada issued a press release stating that Ukrainians fleeing the war could come to Canada temporarily under a new Canada-Ukrainian [Continue]
THE REALITY TELEVISION PROGRAM Dragon’s Den is coming to Kamloops on Thursday. Or at least a version of this show that is based on individuals pitching their business [Continue]
SCROLLING THROUGH the endless posts on the Russian war on Ukraine, one sees image after image of war. Burned-out buildings, disabled tanks, and Ukrainian soldiers and [Continue]
WATCHING THE MOUNTING RUSSIAN TROOPS on Ukraine’s borders is ominous. Military actions, escalating bombings, and armed conflict grows every day. And with war comes [Continue]
‘LOOK FOR THE HELPERS. You will always find people who are helping.” So said Fred Rogers, or Mr. Rogers as he is better known. He didn’t just say it once. Again [Continue]
THIS WEEK, VANCOUVER SUN reporter Vaughn Palmer wrote a column titled “Only voters can lay blame for Thompson-Nicola spending fiasco.” In it, he rightly praised Kamloops [Continue]
AS THIS WEEK’S anti-vaccine-mandate truckers’ protest in Ottawa drags on, some I know have said to me they no longer think there will be support for protests of any [Continue]
YESTERDAY, JANUARY 25, 2022, the Williams Lake First Nation (WLFN) released its preliminary results of their first phase of investigations into St. Joseph’s Mission [Continue]
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]
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]
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]