Local Voices

O’REILLY – Space for PET/CT scanner is a must for new Kamloops cancer centre

June 26, 2025 // 2 Comments

By MIKE O’REILLY Chair, Thompson Regional Hospital District SINCE THE NEW Kamloops Cancer Centre was announced, doctors, healthcare workers, First Nations, Thompson [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The shortage is of family practitioners, not doctors

June 19, 2025 // 2 Comments

CANADA HAS MORE doctors than ever before but fewer of us (including me) have a family doctor. How can that be? What are they doing if not treating the 6.5 million Canadians [Continue]

JOHNSON – Carney shows flexible elbows in polarized political landscape

June 17, 2025 // 1 Comment

CANADA IS AT an interesting political crossroads at the moment. Prime Minister Mark Carney currently enjoys the advantage of ideological plasticity. Depending on the issue, [Continue]

FORSETH – Do you want some of what you’re hoping for, or nothing at all?

June 13, 2025 // 5 Comments

YESTERDAY CAME NEWS that most (many) conservative leaning B.C. voters have come to dread, time and time again – the formation of another splinter party – and it’s [Continue]

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]