BEPPLE – Canada is a country that’s willing to evolve
HAPPY CANADA DAY! Happy 153 year birthday! For who we are, and what we will become. One of Canada’s greatest strengths is its ability to change. The Canadian flag is a [Continue]
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BEPPLE – Death by a thousand cuts is still death for Kamloops grasslands
DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS is still death. This week, City council approved a public hearing to amend land use of a major new subdivision in Aberdeen. The subdivision, [Continue]
BEPPLE – Boards need more diversity to reflect the many faces of Kamloops
PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU stated this week that systemic racism will be eliminated from federal government institutions and agencies. The question is how? What I [Continue]
BEPPLE – Do we pick the gun or the butter knife for frontline policing?
HAVING THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT makes all the difference. You don’t take a butter knife to a gun fight. And you shouldn’t take a gun, when a butter knife will do. In the [Continue]
BEPPLE – It will be the peacemakers who lead us out of troubled times
THERE IS NO RACISM in Canada. That’s what media commentator Rex Murphy and retired politician Stockwell Day both said this week. So it must be true. Who better to [Continue]
BEPPLE – RCMP missed opportunity to communicate with public via Twitter
IF WE HAVE LEARNED nothing else in the past month here in Kamloops, we have learned that even a tragedy of national proportion such as the crash of the Snowbird on May 17, [Continue]
BEPPLE – As the lockdown eases, we must remember what could have been
AS WE EMERGE from the worst of the COVID-19 lockdown in B.C., one wonders why we went into lockdown to begin with. Especially in the Interior of the province. Or that’s [Continue]
BEPPLE – Pandemic offers a chance to make city streets more people friendly
KAMLOOPS HAS a new traffic and transportation engineer. It’s a job that seems to have a lot of comings and goings, as you might say. Traffic, as in rush hour traffic. [Continue]
BEPPLE – Coronavirus pandemic moves us closer to a cashless society
INVESTORS SAY “Cash is King” in uncertain times. But, 100 plus days into COVID-19 self-distancing, it’s clear that paying with cash has lost its luster. The first [Continue]
BEPPLE – Some suggestions for mayor’s task force on economic recovery
THE ANNOUNCEMENT this week (Tuesday, March 28), that mayor of Kamloops Ken Christian has formed an economic recovery task force of 15 business leaders, businesses, and [Continue]
BEPPLE – Good to know that planning for the future has not been forgotten
PLANNING IS THE REASON we get up every day and the water runs, the lights turn on, the garbage is picked up, the internet is working, and the world keeps turning. It’s hard [Continue]
BEPPLE – Shining a light on the vulnerability of those in extended care homes
MANY YEARS AGO, I wrote a song about residents in an extended care home. The chorus goes like this: “I’m not dead yet, I’m not going leave, I’m not going ‘til [Continue]
BEPPLE – Kamloops economy will have to re-invent itself after COVID-19
WALKING ALONG VICTORIA STREET in downtown Kamloops is like walking into a ghost town. Store after store is shuttered and closed. On each doorway is a stark notice stating [Continue]
BEPPLE – Messages of hope and kindness abound while taking a walk
COVID-19 IS A media bonanza. Whether it is online, in print, on TV or over the radio, media has been doing an amazing job covering the story from every angle. And, just [Continue]
