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BEPPLE – Tournament Capital is ready to face challenges again this summer

June 2, 2023 // 1 Comment

TOURNAMENT CAPITAL of Canada has delivered once again. The Memorial Cup isn’t done yet, but the praises have already started for the outstanding work of the organizing [Continue]

BEPPLE – We need housing but B.C. govt’s plan to impose zoning is too risky

May 24, 2023 // 1 Comment

WE NEED MORE HOUSING in Kamloops. There is no dispute about that. According to Statistics Canada, from 2016 to 2021 Kamloops’ population grew by 10%, making it the fifth [Continue]

BEPPLE – Even politicians go to school

March 2, 2023 // 2 Comments

THIS WEEK, Kamloops City council is attending the three-day Local Government Leadership Academy in Kelowna. We’re there along with with hundreds of local council members [Continue]

BEPPLE – The 15-minute city aims at easy access to services for everyone

February 22, 2023 // 3 Comments

LIVING IN A 15-MINUTE CITY sounds like a great place to live to me. The concept of a 15-minute city is that everything one needs for regular life is available within a 15 [Continue]

BEPPLE – Limiting each speaker to five minutes serves everyone’s interests

February 15, 2023 // 1 Comment

MEETINGS ARE CORE to what a city council is about. Meetings are where information is presented, issues are debated, and decisions are made. The business of the City of [Continue]

BEPPLE – Reconciliation between Settlers and Indigenous requires action

February 8, 2023 // 1 Comment

RECONCILIATION BETWEEN Settlers and Indigenous people in Canada is an ongoing process. Reconciliation is not one event, but a continual flow of actions. This last week, [Continue]

BEPPLE – Living together is messy, complicated and complex

February 1, 2023 // 3 Comments

LOCAL GOVERNMEN is many things, but at its core is finding better ways to live together in relatively close quarters. Take garbage, for example. Yesterday, City of Kamloops [Continue]

BEPPLE – Strategic plans make a difference, even when things don’t go as planned

January 25, 2023 // 4 Comments

THIS WEEK, Kamloops City council sits down to make the strategic plan for the next four years. Myself and other council members will set down goals for what we want to [Continue]

BEPPLE – Things are good in Kamloops but not as good as they used to be

January 19, 2023 // 2 Comments

THINGS ARE NOT AS GOOD as they used to be in Kamloops. The Citizen Satisfaction Survey results for 2022 are out. Whereas the quality of life was rated good or very [Continue]

BEPPLE – Shifting issues mean City Hall must evolve

January 10, 2023 // 1 Comment

BACK IN OCTOBER and November 2022, City of Kamloops undertook a Citizen Satisfaction Survey. The survey, which is undertaken every few years, measures the mood of the city. [Continue]

BEPPLE – City needs more made-in-Kamloops housing solutions

January 3, 2023 // 1 Comment

BACK IN APRIL 2022, BC Housing and City of Kamloops signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for 369 affordable rental homes for families and seniors, approximately 133 [Continue]

BEPPLE – Coquihalla Highway can’t escape its past

December 28, 2022 // 0 Comments

WHEN THE COQUIHALLA Highway was opened in 1986, it followed the mountainous route of the doomed Kettle Valley Railway from Coldwater to Hope. And just as the KVR struggled to [Continue]

BEPPLE – Thank you to those who help get us home to family at Christmas

December 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

“Every mile is two in winter.” – George Herbert, 17th century poet. HERBERT MIGHT HAVE lived 400 years ago, but he might well have been speaking about travel for [Continue]

BEPPLE – Declaring conflicts of interest a normal part of the job on City council

December 7, 2022 // 1 Comment

DECLARING A CONFLICT OF INTEREST is a normal event during a B.C. city council meeting. In British Columbia, councils are governed by the Community Charter which was [Continue]