Local Voices

GINTA – Teachers deserve to be listened to for the sake of us all

February 23, 2021 // 0 Comments

YOU MAY HAVE PEEKED at the news of the new variants appearing in some schools in the Lower Mainland. As I started writing, two more schools have been added to the exposure [Continue]

KNOX – Off-target tweets don’t phase Georgia’s John Horgan

February 21, 2021 // 0 Comments

IT WAS AN IMPASSIONED PLEA from a Point Grey resident that got John Horgan’s attention Monday. I’m a parent of four, the email said. Extending SkyTrain to UBC will change [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The new climate deniers surrender to wishful thinking

February 20, 2021 // 0 Comments

THE NEW CLIMATE DENIERS no longer deny that climate change is happening. It’s become too obvious that it is. It used to be that climate change deniers could ridicule the [Continue]

BEPPLE – ‘Disorganized’ sports and rec groups need to be given a voice too

February 17, 2021 // 3 Comments

SOME DAYS I think we need a Disorganized Sport and Recreation Association to give voice for the rest of us. That’s what I thought this week when I heard that the Kamloops [Continue]

WALSH – Buying online doesn’t help independent Kamloops businesses

February 16, 2021 // 2 Comments

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]

KNOX – The brother who wouldn’t lose hope, the sister who fought to free him

February 14, 2021 // 0 Comments

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]