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BEPPLE – Overhaul of federal ridings more pressing issue than prop rep

October 23, 2019 // 2 Comments

CONGRATULATION to our newly re-elected Member of Parliament, Conservative Cathy McLeod, who won the riding for the fourth time with 44.7 per cent of the votes in the Oct. 21 [Continue]

BEPPLE – The power of building community

October 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

LAST WEEK, I was part of something almost magical. On Thursday, Oct. 10, I was one of an audience of about 200 who came together for the Stand Up for Mental Health comedy [Continue]

BEPPLE – Do we go with experience, or with some fresh ideas Oct. 21?

October 10, 2019 // 3 Comments

IF ALL IT TOOK WAS EXPERIENCE, either incumbent Conservative Cathy McLeod or Liberal candidate Terry Lake would bound to be the winner in the Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo riding [Continue]

BEPPLE – Kamloops candidates could take a lesson from John F. Kennedy

October 2, 2019 // 2 Comments

I HAD NOT QUITE been born in 1962 when U.S. President John F. Kennedy made his historic speech, “We choose to go to the Moon,” on Sept. 12, 1962. With that speech, the [Continue]

BEPPLE – Don’t let controversies stop you from voting on October 21

September 25, 2019 // 1 Comment

IT WAS TOUGH NEWS for the Liberal party last week, when photographs of Justin Trudeau in 2001 and previous years in brown-face and black-face hit the news like a [Continue]

BEPPLE – Summit connector needs to become a street, not a highway

September 18, 2019 // 7 Comments

WE ALL KNOW the difference between a highway and a street. A highway is a main road, where vehicles are able to move at high speeds. There are often multiple lanes. A [Continue]