Local Voices

BEPPLE – Local issues, not spending fiasco, will decide next TNRD election

February 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

THIS WEEK, VANCOUVER SUN reporter Vaughn Palmer wrote a column titled “Only voters can lay blame for Thompson-Nicola spending fiasco.” In it, he rightly praised Kamloops [Continue]

WALSH – Pandemic restrictions are no longer useful; end the mandates

February 8, 2022 // 7 Comments

“The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.” – Thomas Paine By DENIS WALSH Kamloops City Councillor I WANT TO EXPRESS my [Continue]

KNOX – Protests, from vaccination mandates to B.C.’s goat-milking laws

February 6, 2022 // 1 Comment

I UNPLUGGED for January. Disabled my email, turned off Twitter, threw the phone in the toilet and focused on a single project, distraction-free. Slept like the dead every [Continue]

JOHNSON – A look back at PyeongChang as the Beijing Olympics get underway

February 5, 2022 // 1 Comment

By DAVID JOHNSON Contributor, ArmchairMayor.ca FOUR YEARS AGO, at the conclusion of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, I wrote a column about a kind of a ‘changing of [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Convoy brings back memories of ‘Yellow Vest’ movement

February 3, 2022 // 7 Comments

AS YOGI BERRAs once said: “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” Here we go again with another truck convoy to Ottawa by the misguided fuzzy-thinkers. Three [Continue]

BEPPLE – It’s time for cyclists and pedestrians to start protesting

February 2, 2022 // 4 Comments

AS THIS WEEK’S anti-vaccine-mandate truckers’ protest in Ottawa drags on, some I know have said to me they no longer think there will be support for protests of any [Continue]