Local Voices

PETERS – Upping RCMP complement is no magic bullet for solving crime

March 19, 2022 // 1 Comment

NO ONE SHOULD SEE Kamloops city council’s direction taken this week on policing as the end of this city’s law and order problems. There are a lot more avenues to pursue [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The new counterculture is incoherent

March 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

“And something is happening here but you don’t know what it is, Do you, Mr. Jones?” —Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man I USED TO FEEL a little smug when I was part [Continue]

JOHNSON – Point by point, what will council candidates do with our money?

March 16, 2022 // 2 Comments

WITH THE UPCOMING municipal election in October, we find ourselves at the beginning of positional jockeying for council incumbents looking for re-election, and new Council [Continue]

BEPPLE – If we don’t have room for Ukrainian refugees, we must find it

March 16, 2022 // 2 Comments

ON MARCH 3, the Government of Canada issued a press release stating that Ukrainians fleeing the war could come to Canada temporarily under a new Canada-Ukrainian [Continue]

PETERS – Response to overdose crisis should include cabinet shuffle

March 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

THE NDP GOVERNMENT theme its newly released provincial budget ‘Better Together,’ suggesting a collaborative approach would help address the many issues facing British [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – Premier shrugs and does nothing about high gas prices

March 11, 2022 // 1 Comment

Excerpt from a debate in the B.C. Legislature on Thursday, March 10, 2022 between Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone and Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources Minister [Continue]