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BEPPLE – Vaccine brings light at the end of the tunnel but we’re not out of it yet

December 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

CHRISTMAS IS JUST a couple of days away, but in some ways, it has already arrived here in Kamloops. Yesterday (Dec. 22), the first person in Kamloops received a COVID-19 [Continue]

GINTA – Be the better and safer person this holiday season

December 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

DURING THE FIRST TWO WEEKENDS of December, the Kamloops RCMP took 17 impaired drivers off the road. That’s 17 potential disasters waiting to happen which were averted. [Continue]

KNOX – Birth, life and pandemic-inspired tech that shrinks the world

December 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

DURING THE 1994 Commonwealth Games, an Australian athlete became a father. Pat Scammell wasn’t around for the birth. The middle-distance runner was here in Victoria, [Continue]

PETERS – After this ‘annus horribilis’, there is reason for optimism about 2021

December 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

THREE-HUNDRED-FIFTY-THREE. We are currently on Day 353 of the Year of our Lord, 2020. For many of us, that means 353 days of misery and grief. Largely thanks to a global [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – ‘Pandemic support for small businesses is a red-tape disaster’

December 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

Debate between Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone and Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation Minister Ravinder Kahlon during Question Period in the B.C. Legislature on [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Drug prohibition was a mistake but decriminalization not an answer

December 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

HOW MANY MORE PEOPLE HAVE TO DIE because of a half-baked idea from a century ago? It all started at the turn of the 20th century when concoctions of opium were commonly found [Continue]