Local Voices

PETERS – For the future of Canada, we must overcome our fear of change

June 5, 2021 // 1 Comment

A FEW WEEKS AGO, our newsroom took a phone call from a gentleman who was hopping mad. The object of his ire? The Real Canadian Superstore. The man was complaining that [Continue]

STONE – We must commit to remembering, honouring, healing

June 5, 2021 // 1 Comment

By TODD STONE MLA, Kamloops-South Thompson WITH OUR COMMUNITY IN A PERIOD OF DEEP GRIEF, it is difficult to find the right words to convey the shock, sadness and hurt that [Continue]

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]