Local Voices

BEPPLE – It’s time for TNRD to invite region’s First Nations to the table

January 20, 2021 // 8 Comments

GO TO ANY SETTLER TOWN or city in B.C., and there will be a First Nations community close by. The same can be said within the Thompson Nicola Regional District. In [Continue]

GINTA – The last thing we want to deal with in a pandemic is selfishness

January 19, 2021 // 1 Comment

IF THIS FEELS LIKE déjà vu… well, it is. Part of it anyway. The part about people choosing to gather in large numbers in the streets to protest, yet again, masks and [Continue]

KNOX – As councillor apologizes, Horgan eyes inter-provincial travel ban

January 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

SHARMARKE DUBOW apologized again Thursday. “By travelling to see my family at a time when so many others in our community did not do the same, I let you down,” he told [Continue]

PETERS – As Interior Health COVID-19 cases rise, we need a pep talk

January 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

ALL RIGHT, RESIDENTS OF INTERIOR HEALTH: it’s time for a pep talk. It’s time for the coach to come in during the intermission and kick some garbage cans around. It’s [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Donald Trump’s big-tent coalition of the deluded

January 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS ASSEMBLED a ragtag rabble of misfits into “Trump’s Army”. The disgraced president was able to unite marginalized groups in a way no other president [Continue]

BEPPLE – January rain storm a wakeup call that climate change is upon us

January 13, 2021 // 1 Comment

I AWOKE EARLY this morning to the sound of rain beating on my window and wind shaking the trees. The looming threat, climate change emergency, had awoken me. Like many, [Continue]