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BEPPLE – A sprawling city means higher taxes to maintain services

November 23, 2022 // 3 Comments

I’M NOT SURE who came up with the graphic to begin with, but I first saw it on a tweet by internationally recognized urban planner Brent Toderian of Vancouver. Simply put, [Continue]

BEPPLE – Kamloops needs more housing, not just more shelter beds

November 16, 2022 // 3 Comments

AND I’M BACK. My last column with the Armchair Mayor was April 6, 2022. That was the week before I declared I was running for a seat on Kamloops City [Continue]

BEPPLE – Mayor’s race already shaping up as an interesting one

April 6, 2022 // 4 Comments

AND THEN there were four. With current councillor Dieter Dudy throwing his hat in the ring for the mayor’s race in the upcoming October municipal election, Kamloops now has [Continue]

BEPPLE – It’s time Interior Health listened to calls for expansion of Car 40

March 30, 2022 // 5 Comments

THERE IS CONCERN in Kamloops that social issues such as drug addiction and mental illness are growing. There are daily calls that more be done. This week’s announcement [Continue]

BEPPLE – More data needed on Kamloops Fire Rescue medical calls

March 23, 2022 // 3 Comments

DATA IS A CORE to good policy for cities. We see it again and again from the simplest to the most complex. When cities want to make road changes, they measure [Continue]

BEPPLE – If we don’t have room for Ukrainian refugees, we must find it

March 16, 2022 // 2 Comments

ON MARCH 3, the Government of Canada issued a press release stating that Ukrainians fleeing the war could come to Canada temporarily under a new Canada-Ukrainian [Continue]