JOHNSON – Juniper needs a road alright, but where should it go?
By DAVID JOHNSON IT’S THE NIGHT OF THE FIRE, and a bunch of people were trying to open the locked gate off the end of west Qu’Appelle. In the end they managed. [Continue]
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JOHNSON – Composting works but apparently we shouldn’t worry about cost
THE CITY OF KAMLOOPS begins its pilot test of the curbside organic waste collection program in September. Marcia Dick, the city’s solid waste services analyst, updated [Continue]
JOHNSON – TRU Law admissions process needs fixing
By DAVID JOHNSON SO, WE HEAR this week that 42 potential law students who filed applications with and were actually accepted to Thompson Rivers University’s law program [Continue]
JOHNSON – Residential school – What matters now is how we own this
By DAVID JOHNSON THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, Kamloops has had brief moments in the Canadian limelight for one thing or another, but because of last year’s Snowbird crash and [Continue]
JOHNSON – We buy what we can locally, Mr. Walsh, but often have to go online
By DAVID JOHNSON RECENTLY ON THIS same media outlet, Coun. Denis Walsh dropped the conversation of buying local as opposed to buying online. Obviously, all Kamloopians will [Continue]
JOHNSON – The key to new dress code for schools is removing the ambiguity
By DAVID JOHNSON ON FEBRUARY 23, Grade 12 student Karis Wilson was sent home from school on a dress code violation, having been told her outfit was not appropriate for [Continue]
JOHNSON – Sooo… are we headed to the polls? Some clues from the past
By DAVID JOHNSON PEOPLE ARE WONDERING about a potential federal election call, that could come sooner than the Oct. 16, 2023 preordained date. Any chance they can get, [Continue]
JOHNSON – Quit your complaining and just pay the dog licence on time
By DAVID JOHNSON Guest columnist A LITTLE ONLINE BIRDY tells me theres a hub bub going on about dog licensing, late fees and residents threatening to stop licensing their dog [Continue]
JOHNSON – The new Kamloops Performing Arts Centre proposal arrives
By DAVID JOHNSON Step One: The business plan THE BUSINESS PLAN for the proposed Kamloops Performing Arts Centre was released at Tuesday’s City council meeting. The plan [Continue]
JOHNSON – How to traffic quieten, pedestrianize and create gridlock – 101
DENIS WALSH SEEMS TO BE on the Seymour Street one lane warpath, and seems to be putting this together as a High School 101 course on the consequences of faulty city design [Continue]
JOHNSON – Railcars are rolling, the pipeline build has already begun
By DAVID JOHNSON TODAY I WATCHED as trucks stacked with the actual pipe, leave the storage yard on Mission Flats road in Kamloops, and head out towards the next construction [Continue]
JOHNSON – Let’s do the performing arts centre the right way this time
By DAVID JOHNSON SO THE NEWE PROPOSAL for a Kamloops Performing Arts Centre has started up, and right off the bat, misinformation abounds and commenters online are running [Continue]
GUEST COLUMN – Learning to embrace economic futility and love taxes
By DAVID JOHNSON I ALREADY WROTE about the politicking surrounding the budget speech, Scheer, Wilson-Raybould, SNC Lavalin, desk slamming and filibusters, etc, etc, etc. [Continue]
GUEST COLUMN – SNC, JWR, budget day, and all I want is my lasagna
Even though the Conservative filibuster is being explained to us as a political ploy or even rebellion, what it ended up being about was the Conservatives actually voting to [Continue]
