Local Voices

CHARBONNEAU – Few long-term jobs from AI data centers in Kamloops

June 12, 2025 // 1 Comment

THERE ARE OBVIOUS advantages for the builders of AI data centres to locate in Kamloops. But they don’t create that many long-term jobs. Job creation is a routine part of [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Council repeatedly shows it’s not interested in our opinion

June 10, 2025 // 7 Comments

By GARRY DAVIES Guest Columnist “WHAT TO MAKE of a diminished thing.” As I read the recent report on Kamloops debt load per person, I found myself realizing that we [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Proposed Tk’emlúps biomass fuel refinery gets Trump bump

June 5, 2025 // 2 Comments

PRESIDENT TRUMP has, perhaps advertently, given a break to North American biomass fuel producers. In his war on sanity, Trump is not known to help former friends. Trump’s [Continue]

JOHNSON – Is City council about to jump into another boondoggle?

May 31, 2025 // 7 Comments

NOTE: This is the second part of a two-part column on City council boondoggles. THIS TIME we are talking about the planned Summit Connector TRU pedestrian overpass bridge and [Continue]

FORSETH – B.C.’s Conservatives are NOT out of touch with British Columbians

May 30, 2025 // 0 Comments

I HAVE TO LAUGH at the emails I receive from the BC NDP. There’s never a time they don’t outright trash the BC Conservative Party but, hey, all parties do it, right? [Continue]

JOHNSON – Will Kamloops City council fix its boondoggle ways?

May 29, 2025 // 10 Comments

NOTE: This is part one of a two-part column on City council boondoggles. CALLED IT last summer, but I didn’t use the word ‘boondoggle’ … should’ve. Talking about [Continue]