Local Voices

CHARBONNEAU – Non-fungible tokens could help artists make a living

March 26, 2021 // 0 Comments

I DIDN’T REALIZE MY ART WAS NON-FUNGIBLE but that was because I didn’t know what the word fungible meant. Until recently, fungible was rarely used outside legal circles. [Continue]

BEPPLE – Housing demand – City should pay people to subdivide their lots

March 24, 2021 // 5 Comments

THE KAMLOOPS REAL ESTATE MARKET is hot. Not a day goes by that I don’t I read about another house selling for $50,000 or more over asking. Or a homeowner receiving 10 [Continue]

IN THE HOUSE – What’s happening with search for our own vaccine producer?

March 24, 2021 // 0 Comments

Excerpt from discussion in the House of Commons on March 22, 2021. Cathy McLeod (Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo) With regard to offers or proposals received by the government to [Continue]

KNOX – Eighteen years later, it’s time to celebrate refugees’ success

March 21, 2021 // 1 Comment

EIGHTEEN YEARS LATER, Margaret Lansana still remembers the scene at the Victoria airport on that chilly, very un-African day. Drums were pounding, flowers were thrust in her [Continue]

PETERS – Will this pandemic pull us all together or wedge us apart?

March 20, 2021 // 1 Comment

LAST WEEK, I referred to COVID-19 as a virus that has destroyed our ability to trust each other. Its devastating health impacts have made it the fourth-leading cause of death [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Agreement with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs was either crafty or naive

March 19, 2021 // 0 Comments

OVER A YEAR AGO, governments rid themselves of a political problem and passed it on to the Wet’suwet’en people of B.C.’s northern interior. Governments had to “do [Continue]