Guest Column

GUEST COLUMN – Catholic church must pay a heavy price for residential schools

May 31, 2021 // 7 Comments

By PIERCE GRAHAM A NUMBER OF RECENT Canadian newspapers have run headline stories confirming evidence of child abuse in the infamous residential school system. The worst of [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Democracy is threatened by the very people it serves

April 26, 2021 // 5 Comments

By PIERCE GRAHAM Kamloops PROBABLY SINCE its very beginning in early Greece, and later in the minds of the 18th century philosophers, the concept of democracy has been [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – How about a pesticide moratorium until we have a plan?

April 3, 2021 // 3 Comments

By BRONWEN SCOTT IT’S NOT JUST the TNRD. The city pesticide issue shows Kamloops councillors need to demand full disclosure from their administration as well. The City has [Continue]

SCHOOLS – New Parkcrest elementary school will give us a reason to celebrate

February 6, 2021 // 8 Comments

By JENNIFER WHITESIDE Minister of Education WHEN PARKCREST ELEMENTARY in Kamloops was destroyed in a fire in the fall of 2019, students and families were left heartbroken, [Continue]

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]

WALSH – Westsyde oil pipeline should be shut down and relocated

January 13, 2020 // 4 Comments

A notice of motion from Coun. Denis Walsh asking that City council request the Canada Energy Regulator to order Trans Mountain to shut down its pipeline through Westsyde [Continue]

RITCEY – What would a Green Party election victory in Kamloops look like?

May 21, 2019 // 3 Comments

THE GREEN PARTY’S SHOCK victory in a recent federal by-election has Canadians reassessing their chances in the upcoming fall election. Elizabeth May routinely polls as [Continue]

O’REILLY – The shocking truth about Kamloops’ love affair with automobiles

February 16, 2019 // 2 Comments

OVER THE LAST THREE MONTHS, Kamloops’ newly elected council has been going through a rigorous orientation that has included nearly 50 hours of facility tours, education [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Thanks, but no thanks to challenge issued on prop rep

October 17, 2018 // 11 Comments

This guest column is a response to an Open Letter from the Armchair Mayor, published Oct. 11, 2018, challenging Fair Vote Kamloops to publish articles on its Facebook page [Continue]