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BEPPLE – Time for governments to invest in long-distance bus service

July 11, 2018 // 1 Comment

NEWS OF THE PENDING shutdown of Greyhound bus service is devastating for many. Solutions to replace Greyhound are needed now. The Greyhound bus is the only viable option [Continue]

BEPPLE – Everybody, including our MP, needs to speak up about racist sign

July 4, 2018 // 3 Comments

IT IS WHAT IS NOT SAID, as much as what is, that matters. What was said a few days back, spray painted on a sign in Lac La Bois, was hateful and vile. Hateful words of [Continue]

BEPPLE – Time we see ourselves for who we are – Kamloops is a railway town

June 27, 2018 // 5 Comments

KAMLOOPS IS a railway town. There’s no two ways about it. CP Rail and CN Rail meet here, the first place west of Winnipeg. Both CP and CN have reload yards here as [Continue]

BEPPLE – Reducing downtown parking spaces could create ‘sticky streets’

June 20, 2018 // 6 Comments

THE CITY OF KAMLOOPS is revising its 2005 City Centre Plan. Their goal is to create a plan that guides land use for the next 20 years in the centre of the city. The plan [Continue]

BEPPLE – Low-income Kamloops seniors deserve more

June 13, 2018 // 5 Comments

THIS WEEK, SPARC BC and the United Way of the Lower Mainland released BC Seniors’ Poverty Report Card. It’s not good news, with 8.8 per cent of B.C.’s seniors living [Continue]

BEPPLE – TRU must come to the table to relieve pressure on city’s housing stock

June 6, 2018 // 1 Comment

I LIVE NEAR a bottle depot, so it is not unusual for me to see someone with all their possessions pushing a shopping cart down my street. But Kamloops is small enough, that [Continue]

BEPPLE – Could China be in the market for a Canadian oil pipeline?

May 30, 2018 // 1 Comment

WOW. I NEVER thought I’d own piece of a pipeline. But now, like all Canadians, I may soon be part owner of the Canadian portion of the expanded Kinder Morgan pipeline. [Continue]

BEPPLE – A question for the women of Kamloops: Are you ready to run?

May 23, 2018 // 1 Comment

HERE IN KAMLOOPS, as in many places, the majority of candidates in federal, provincial and municipal elections have always been men. For many reasons, more men are able to [Continue]

BEPPLE – Time Milobar took his job as environment critic more seriously

May 16, 2018 // 5 Comments

NORTH THOMPSON MLA and Opposition Environment Critic Peter Milobar made me smile this week with his proposal that Greater Victoria MLAs not receive a per diem meal allowance [Continue]

BEPPLE – How Kamloops can avoid Vancouver’s housing crisis

May 9, 2018 // 2 Comments

WAY BACK in 1986, satellite images from space were still relatively new and unique. Living in Vancouver at the time, I purchased a view from space of Greater Vancouver. It [Continue]

BEPPLE – We need to do much more to protect pedestrians day-to-day

May 2, 2018 // 2 Comments

THE BRUTAL pedestrian deaths by vehicle in Toronto last week are sobering. So many dead in one act is unprecedented and hard to fathom. Hopefully, the event won’t be [Continue]

BEPPLE – BC Hydro selleth and taketh on solar power, but not payeth

April 25, 2018 // 11 Comments

ASK ANYONE who knows me, and they will tell you that I love the solar panels on my house. I’m one of hundreds of households across B.C. who have installed solar panels [Continue]

BEPPLE – Real solution for Westmount school is bus service from Batchelor

April 18, 2018 // 3 Comments

INDUCED DEMAND is the phenomenon where traffic gets worse, not better, when roads are improved. Build more roads, get more traffic. Make traffic more efficient, get more [Continue]

BEPPLE – Horgan and NDP should be careful what they wish for on pipeline

April 11, 2018 // 3 Comments

BE CAREFUL what you wish for, lest it come true. That may sum up the quandary that Premier John Horgan and the BC NDP are in. Horgan and his party have consistently stated [Continue]