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April 8, 2020 in Environment // SUZUKI – Review shows ocean life could rebound within 30 years
April 8, 2020 in Local Voices // MEHTA – Next-generation solar panels boost efficiency but may carry toxic risks
April 8, 2020 in Other Voices // HENRY – An explanation of why COVID19 communities are not named
April 8, 2020 in Bepple // BEPPLE – Kamloops economy will have to re-invent itself after COVID-19
April 8, 2020 in Editorials // EDITORIAL – Democracy by videoconference – ‘Can you hear me now?’

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BEPPLE – Kamloops economy will have to re-invent itself after COVID-19

April 8, 2020 // 1 Comment

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

April 1, 2020 // 2 Comments

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]

BEPPLE – Slow and steady will win the race against COVID-19

March 25, 2020 // 0 Comments

IN THIS RACE, we want to be tortoises, not hares. Slow and steady. One of my nephews is a speed skater. For a few years, he was very competitive, going all the way to the [Continue]

BEPPLE – Social distance does not have to mean isolation from community

March 18, 2020 // 4 Comments

‘SECOND VERSE, same as the first. Just a little bit louder and a whole lot worse.” That was a line from a Girl Guide song I sang as a girl. It went on in a [Continue]

BEPPLE – Will politics bring Steven Puhallo back to British Columbia?

March 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

ONCE POLITICS gets into your blood, it’s hard to get it out. I can attest to that. So too, apparently, can Steven Puhallo. Many may remember Puhallo as the North Shore [Continue]

BEPPLE – It’s a big, wide world, and it all eventually comes to Kamloops

February 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

EVERYWHERE I WENT this week, there were small signs of the bigger happenings. First I drove to Lytton and back to Kamloops. On railway sidings from Kamloops down to Lytton [Continue]

BEPPLE – Rejecting subdivisions means higher lot prices, more urban sprawl

February 19, 2020 // 9 Comments

LAST WEEK, Kamloops City council came out on the side of a neighbourhood. There was a public hearing on a rezoning request to subdivide a lot in Dallas to allow three houses [Continue]

BEPPLE – Welcome to Kamloops’ new group of low-carbon activists

February 12, 2020 // 5 Comments

THANK GOODNESS for Kamloops activists. More specifically, thank goodness for the Kamloops’ newest group of activists, the Kamloops Association for Low-Carbon [Continue]

BEPPLE – Making an impression on our streets to honour our past

February 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

THE ANNOUNCEMENT last week of new commercial buildings to be built at Lansdowne Street between 5th and 6th Avenues, and on the corner of Victoria Street and 6th Avenue where [Continue]

BEPPLE – Other pools will become very crowded during aquatic centre closure

January 29, 2020 // 1 Comment

WITH THE UPCOMING closure for six months of the Tournament Capital Centre (TCC) pool in Kamloops, things are going to get busy at Kamloops’ other pools. Having swum for [Continue]

BEPPLE – It’s time for municipal computer systems to go regional

January 22, 2020 // 2 Comments

IT SEEMS THAT A WEEK (or is it a day) doesn’t go by without a report of a computer system being hacked. Sometimes the system is vandalized. Sometimes data is stolen. [Continue]

BEPPLE – Next provincial election is a lot closer than it might seem

January 15, 2020 // 3 Comments

THE NEXT B.C. PROVINCIAL general election is Oct. 16, 2021. That is just over one year and nine months away. That may seem a long ways away, but campaigning is well [Continue]

BEPPLE – If only the world’s problems could be solved with a happy dog

January 8, 2020 // 2 Comments

I HAD A WONDERFUL DOG once; a border collie, black lab cross. We had so many adventures together, looking for new doggie experiences. Along the way, we visited every City [Continue]

BEPPLE – As TRU turns 50, City Hall needs to do more to welcome students

January 1, 2020 // 1 Comment

THE YEAR 2020 will be many things. But here in Kamloops, as well as ripples far and wide, there will be a celebration of Thompson Rivers University (TRU). In 2020, TRU [Continue]