Guest Column

GUEST COLUMN – Next time you curse ICBC, look at the immensity of it

December 10, 2020 // 1 Comment

By PIERCE GRAHAM Kamloops I RECENTLY RENEWED my auto insurance, and also had to visit the ICBC main office in Kamloops to replace a lost Driver’s Licence. The visit was [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Trying to untangle the logic of grocery store names

December 7, 2020 // 3 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON Guest columnist THERE’S A PHENONENON happening in our midst. It isn’t about some pandemic related concern, or anything to do with circumstances [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Churches unqualified to set their own rules on pandemic

December 3, 2020 // 6 Comments

By PIERCE GRAHAM A RECENT NEWSPAPER ITEM caught my eye, reporting that various churches in the B.C. lower Fraser Valley had officially and publicly rejected recommendations [Continue]

BARNETT – Horgan can still stop the baby moose hunt before it starts

August 8, 2020 // 2 Comments

BY DONNA BARNETT MLA, Cariboo-Chilcotin THERE IS A GROWING MOVEMENT against Premier Horgan’s plan to cull moose cows and their calves all in the name of saving endangered [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – B.C.’s mining laws are still stuck in the gold rush era

January 15, 2020 // 2 Comments

By GINA MORRIS Kamloops Moms for Clean Air THE MINING INDUSTRY in British Columbia claims to adhere to world-leading practices, so how is it that the Ajax mining company [Continue]

SCHOOL BOARD – 2019 was a remarkable year for School District 73

January 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

By ALISON SIDOW Superintendent, School District 73 FOR MANY OF US in the district, 2019 will be remembered for the fire that destroyed the Parkcrest Elementary school in [Continue]