Local Voices

PETERS – A heart-warming story generated a heart-warming response

March 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

A LOT OF PEOPLE say they love seeing the media cover good news and sick of all the bad news. That’s patently not true. Audience analytics reliably tell you that it’s the [Continue]

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]