WALSH – Buying online doesn’t help independent Kamloops businesses
By DENIS WALSH Councillor, City of Kamloops MAY I INVITE YOU to imagine a city without any locally owned independent businesses? Full disclosure — I chose this topic [Continue]
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KNOX – The brother who wouldn’t lose hope, the sister who fought to free him
THERE WERE TIMES in Iran’s notorious Evin prison that Saeed Malekpour, a death sentence hanging over his head, would shut his eyes and dream of being back on Vancouver [Continue]
PETERS – We should all be so lucky to have a mom like Sue Simpson
ON JUNE 19, 2016, Jessie Simpson almost died by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. For the transgression of trespassing, the boy was bludgeoned with in an inch of [Continue]
STONE – B.C.’s economic recovery must be led by private sector jobs
By TODD STONE MLA, Kamloops-South Thompson IT’S NO SECRET that B.C.’s economy is reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest figures from Statistics Canada show [Continue]
JOHNSON – Sooo… are we headed to the polls? Some clues from the past
By DAVID JOHNSON PEOPLE ARE WONDERING about a potential federal election call, that could come sooner than the Oct. 16, 2023 preordained date. Any chance they can get, [Continue]
BEPPLE – Kamloops needs another, more central, long-term care home
IT MAY BE FORGOTTEN by many that in 2020 the B.C. provincial government announced an expansion of almost 500 more extended care beds across the province. Of these, 100 beds [Continue]
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