Local Voices

KNOX – A white bicycle and flowers at the spot where a cyclist died

May 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

SOME ROADSIDE MEMORIALS bring you down. They drag you into somebody else’s grief, an unwanted reminder that a tragic death happened right here. Often the impromptu shrines [Continue]

PETERS – Flawed parole system means Shearing still holds all the power over the family of his victims

May 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

YOU CAN SAY DAVID SHEARING SHOULD BE PUT TO DEATH, but that’s just not going to happen. You can say he should remain in prison forever, but according to the sentence he was [Continue]

BEPPLE – School district needs to re-examine its relationship with police

April 28, 2021 // 1 Comment

THIS WEEK, the Vancouver and New Westminster school boards both voted to end police liaison programs. Rather than being seen as a positive presence in schools, the school [Continue]

GINTA – Let’s focus on the things we can do and remember what matters

April 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

DEPENDING ON WHO YOU ASK, you’ll hear from some people that they are making the best of their time and days in general, restrictions notwithstanding. Others will explicitly [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Democracy is threatened by the very people it serves

April 26, 2021 // 5 Comments

By PIERCE GRAHAM Kamloops PROBABLY SINCE its very beginning in early Greece, and later in the minds of the 18th century philosophers, the concept of democracy has been [Continue]

KNOX – Is there a right to balk at those who balk at getting a shot?

April 25, 2021 // 0 Comments

I GOT THE ASTRAZENECA this week. Failed to clot up and croak, which will disappoint some readers. My arm was sore for a couple of days, but I put that down to Bill Gates [Continue]