Local Voices

MILOBAR – Delays in getting COVID support to businesses is unacceptable

January 7, 2022 // 1 Comment

IT’S AN INCREDIBLY TOUGH TIME TO BE A BUSINESS OWNER IN B.C., as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have an impact on operations and revenues. Many are struggling to stay [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Canada’s divide with the U.S. will widen in 2022

January 6, 2022 // 1 Comment

THE GAP BETWEEN Canadian and American values will grow wider in 2022. We were relatively happy with our neighbours until the arrival of Donald Trump in 2017. Then the [Continue]

BEPPLE – There’s a downside to the increase in our property assessments

January 5, 2022 // 2 Comments

I’M RICH. Or, more correctly, I’m richer. Like every property owner in Kamloops, I’ve seen a significant increase in the assessed value of my home. From last year [Continue]

FORSETH – This consumer is fed up with the Great Grocery Ripoff

January 5, 2022 // 2 Comments

I AM GETTING more and more discouraged by the lower quality of products, while still paying the same prices or higher. Just a FEW examples would be added amounts of liquid to [Continue]

FORSETH – Horgan gov’t in no hurry to remind us of carbon tax increase

December 31, 2021 // 2 Comments

IT SEEMS INEVITABLE that this government will continue, over and over again, to give me fodder to chastise them – although in this case I, along with nearly all British [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – ‘Supply chain’ should be a contender for phrase of the year

December 30, 2021 // 0 Comments

I’M PICKING ‘SUPPLY CHAIN’ as phrase of the year. While there were other strong candidates, the stark frailty of supply chains and its psychological backlash [Continue]