Local Voices

GUEST COLUMN – Churches unqualified to set their own rules on pandemic

December 3, 2020 // 6 Comments

By PIERCE GRAHAM A RECENT NEWSPAPER ITEM caught my eye, reporting that various churches in the B.C. lower Fraser Valley had officially and publicly rejected recommendations [Continue]

BEPPLE – There are some bright spots as we battle with the pandemic

December 2, 2020 // 1 Comment

AS WE ENTER the ninth month of COVID restrictions in British Columbia, things don’t seem to be getting any better. The number of infections and the number of deaths [Continue]

GINTA – Let’s be the village that gathers around Riel and his family

December 1, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT’S PAST 5 P.M. ON SATURDAY and the ambulance that has been parked in front of the Superstore for the entire day collecting food and toy donations has yet to leave. A few [Continue]

McQUARRIE – We’re all socialists at some point, whether or not we admit it

November 29, 2020 // 2 Comments

I HEAR IT in coffee shops, at town hall meetings and across social media. It’s the “back in my day” Archie Bunker styled conversation that happens whenever government [Continue]

KNOX – For new B.C. cabinet minister, this is why she got into politics

November 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

JIM HARTSHORNE is a West Shore developer, hardly the image that comes to mind when thinking of who might heap praise on a New Democrat politician. But then that politician, [Continue]

PETERS – Canada Post plays the Grinch in forcing out letters from Santa writer

November 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

IZZY McQUEEN has a lot more time on her hands these days. Izzy is one of the Kamloops Blazers’ most ardent boosters, but is more well-known in Kamloops as Santa’s most [Continue]