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BEPPLE – Mayor’s race already shaping up as an interesting one

April 6, 2022 // 4 Comments

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]

BEPPLE – It’s time Interior Health listened to calls for expansion of Car 40

March 30, 2022 // 5 Comments

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]

BEPPLE – More data needed on Kamloops Fire Rescue medical calls

March 23, 2022 // 3 Comments

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]

BEPPLE – If we don’t have room for Ukrainian refugees, we must find it

March 16, 2022 // 2 Comments

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]

BEPPLE – City budget session will be next best thing to the Dragon’s Den

March 9, 2022 // 1 Comment

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]

BEPPLE – Governments need to put more budget focus on families

March 2, 2022 // 0 Comments

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]

BEPPLE – Canada needs to prepare for Ukrainian refugees if war comes

February 23, 2022 // 1 Comment

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]

BEPPLE – Helpers will get us through the last part of pandemic restrictions

February 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

‘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]

BEPPLE – Local issues, not spending fiasco, will decide next TNRD election

February 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

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]

BEPPLE – It’s time for cyclists and pedestrians to start protesting

February 2, 2022 // 4 Comments

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]

BEPPLE – It’s time for the settler community to shine light on itself

January 26, 2022 // 4 Comments

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]

BEPPLE – City’s housing strategy needs to consider shrinking families

January 19, 2022 // 2 Comments

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]

BEPPLE – Previous political experience a prerequisite for running for mayor

January 12, 2022 // 4 Comments

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]

BEPPLE – There’s a downside to the increase in our property assessments

January 5, 2022 // 2 Comments

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]