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BEPPLE – City can’t have its cake and eat it too on downtown parking

January 16, 2019 // 3 Comments

EDITOR’S NOTE: This column has been corrected to now state that those opposing the motion to repeal the increase to parking rates were Mayor Christian, Coun. Hunter and [Continue]

BEPPLE – Accessibility should be big consideration with new arts theatre

January 9, 2019 // 9 Comments

WOW. KAMLOOPS could have a new performing arts centre in the heart of the downtown. Tuesday, Jan 8, Ron Fawcett presented Kamloops Council with a vision of what could be [Continue]

BEPPLE – Kamloops a good place for Justin Trudeau to practice his B.C. pitch

January 2, 2019 // 4 Comments

PRIME MINISTER Justin Trudeau is coming to Kamloops Jan. 9 for a fundraiser. At $300/ticket, it might seem a bit steep for a riding where the Liberal candidate came third in [Continue]

BEPPLE – Small atrocities can lead to bigger ones, but humanity can win out

December 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

HISTORY IS MORE than an exercise in memorizing dates. It’s a way of understanding the present by what has happened in the past. In 1939, 17 German police battalions were [Continue]

BEPPLE – Choppy waters may be ahead as council swerves from its course

December 19, 2018 // 5 Comments

IT IS EARLY DAYS in the new Kamloops City Council, but it seems that there are some choppy waters ahead. One way of thinking about Council is that they are the rudder, and [Continue]

BEPPLE – Kudos to Canada for signing compact on safe migration

December 13, 2018 // 7 Comments

FEDERAL OPPOSITION Leader Andrew Scheer and his band of Conservatives are playing divisive politics at the expense of people seeking asylum in Canada. On Monday, Canada, [Continue]

BEPPLE – Yes, the auto sector is hurting but don’t forget our forest industry

December 5, 2018 // 3 Comments

LAST WEEK’S announcement of GM’s Oshawa plant made national news. Bad news for the 3,000 workers directly laid off. Bad news for their families, and for workers [Continue]

BEPPLE – Looking for a 42-year-old (or younger) to represent us in Ottawa

November 30, 2018 // 5 Comments

THE AVERAGE AGE in Kamloops is 42, as is the British Columbia average. So, at 55 years old, I’m at the point in my life, like many others, where well over half the people [Continue]

BEPPLE – Local government reps head to Ottawa for some ‘good politics’

November 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

THESE DAYS, it’s hard not to get cynical about politics. Rather than build us up, again and again there are those in politics who seem determined to tear us apart. There [Continue]

BEPPLE – $10-a-day child care will be John Horgan’s legacy

November 14, 2018 // 1 Comment

DAVE BARRETT hasn’t been the premier of British Columbia for over 40 years. But when he passed away in February of this year, his legacy lived on. In three and a half [Continue]

BEPPLE – Throwing more police at a problem isn’t necessarily the answer

November 7, 2018 // 2 Comments

THIS WEEK, the new city council of Surrey announced they were getting rid of the RCMP as their police force, and replacing it with a City policing force. Their citizens are [Continue]

BEPPLE – Just like any other Kamloops City council meeting – well, not quite

October 31, 2018 // 2 Comments

THIRTY-ONE YEARS IS a long time for anyone to keep the same job. Thirty-one years is an amazingly long time to be an elected local politician. To have the faith and [Continue]

BEPPLE – Should the side with the most marbles always win the game?

October 24, 2018 // 5 Comments

I WENT LOOKING FOR the 2018 Referendum on Electoral Reform voting package in my mail today. I’d seen online that some people in Kamloops had received their packages. [Continue]

BEPPLE – It’s now legal, but there are places where pot should not be smoked

October 17, 2018 // 4 Comments

POT MAY NOW BE LEGAL, but it’s a long way from socially acceptable in all circumstances. There are places pot has been smoked for decades. Even before it was legal, the [Continue]