Local Voices

JOHNSON – Residential school – What matters now is how we own this

June 4, 2021 // 2 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, Kamloops has had brief moments in the Canadian limelight for one thing or another, but because of last year’s Snowbird crash and [Continue]

BEPPLE – Listening to First Nations voices on residential schools

June 3, 2021 // 4 Comments

I THOUGHT THIS WEEK, what would be best, would be to listen. Here are a few of the First Nations’ voices I have been listening to through this very difficult week, mostly [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Why am I getting apprehensive as the lockdown lifts?

June 3, 2021 // 0 Comments

I SHOULD BE THRILLED at the lifting of the pandemic. Instead, I feel a little uneasy. I’m not the only one. In a recent survey of Canadians by the polling firm Leger, 52 [Continue]

GINTA – The fallacy of sanctioning those who defend the old growth forests

June 1, 2021 // 2 Comments

MOST PEOPLE in British Columbia have learned by now of the big commotion happening at the Fairy Creek Watershed on Vancouver Island near Port Renfrew. Blockades have been [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – ‘We must work together to heal these painful wounds’

June 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

Comments by Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Peter Milobar in the BC Legislature on Monday, May 31, 2021: I RISE TODAY with a heart filled with grief. Last week, the member for [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Catholic church must pay a heavy price for residential schools

May 31, 2021 // 7 Comments

By PIERCE GRAHAM A NUMBER OF RECENT Canadian newspapers have run headline stories confirming evidence of child abuse in the infamous residential school system. The worst of [Continue]