Local Voices

JOHNSON – Composting works but apparently we shouldn’t worry about cost

June 29, 2021 // 4 Comments

THE CITY OF KAMLOOPS begins its pilot test of the curbside organic waste collection program in September. Marcia Dick, the city’s solid waste services analyst, updated [Continue]

KNOX – One last current events quiz as the school year comes to a close

June 28, 2021 // 0 Comments

GOOD MORNING, CLASS. As the school year ends, please note that studies warn the “summer slide” — that is, the loss of knowledge during vacation — typically costs [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – A response to critics of our school system

June 26, 2021 // 1 Comment

By PIERCE GRAHAM Guest Columnist I HAVE SELDOM passed up an opportunity to respond to publicly aired criticisms of our school system, such as letters to the editor, FaceBook [Continue]

PETERS – Here’s what we should build into our new normal post-pandemic

June 26, 2021 // 0 Comments

THE PHRASE ‘NEW NORMAL’ has become so overused to become cliched, but there are several practices we have learned during this COVID-19 pandemic that should become our new [Continue]

JOHNSON – TRU Law admissions process needs fixing

June 24, 2021 // 3 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON SO, WE HEAR this week that 42 potential law students who filed applications with and were actually accepted to Thompson Rivers University’s law program [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Colonial schools maybe, colonial monuments not

June 24, 2021 // 1 Comment

SOME OF CANADA’s Indigenous people have decided to keep their residential schools despite the fact that they hold so many painful memories. One of those is the largest [Continue]