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BEPPLE – City should set up umbrella insurance policy for volunteer groups

October 7, 2020 // 2 Comments

EVEN WITHOUT COVID-19, which has shut down or hamstrung many of our local volunteer groups, there are other stresses. One which is hanging over many is the increasing cost [Continue]

BEPPLE – Women belong as candidates in provincial elections

September 30, 2020 // 4 Comments

ON MONDAY Monday (Sept 28, 2020), Kamloops City Councillor Sadie Hunter declared that she was the BC NDP candidate for Kamloops-North Thompson in the upcoming B.C. provincial [Continue]

BEPPLE – BC Liberals are well-prepared to fight election across the province

September 23, 2020 // 2 Comments

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that I remember from the end of the 2017 BC provincial election where the BC NDP scraped into power with an agreement with the BC Greens. The first thing [Continue]

BEPPLE – Shouldn’t homeless people have a place to sit, too?

September 16, 2020 // 7 Comments

THERE ARE THINGS we do because of bylaws, and then there are things we do just because they are the right thing to do. We have bylaws for dog licenses, noise, and unsightly [Continue]

BEPPLE – Our kids will be in good hands as they return to school during COVID

September 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

I REMEMBER one of my very first days of kindergarten as if it were yesterday. There I was, a tiny five-year-old, walking up the steps of the school. But before I could [Continue]

BEPPLE – We need some new statues to commemorate what’s been left unsaid

September 2, 2020 // 4 Comments

LAST WEEKEND’S TOPPLING of the Prime Minister John A. Macdonald statue in Montreal caused controversy across the country. There are those who decry the act as [Continue]