Local Voices

PETERS – Loosen visitation rules so seniors can choose quality of life

January 23, 2021 // 2 Comments

THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC has been intolerably cruel to our seniors. Not only is it infecting and killing them at a rate far higher than the rest of the population, restrictions [Continue]

SUZUKI – Net zero offers affordable path to climate stability

January 22, 2021 // 1 Comment

ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER RECORD. Even with a global seven per cent drop in fossil fuel burning during the pandemic, 2020 tied 2016 for the hottest year recorded, making the past [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Trying to slow the exodus from Canada’s big cities

January 22, 2021 // 0 Comments

CANADA MORTGAGE AND HOUSING Corproation (CMHC) is attempting to curb the outflow from big cities. Toronto saw a net loss of 50,375 last year as people moved to surrounding [Continue]

BEPPLE – It’s time for TNRD to invite region’s First Nations to the table

January 20, 2021 // 8 Comments

GO TO ANY SETTLER TOWN or city in B.C., and there will be a First Nations community close by. The same can be said within the Thompson Nicola Regional District. In [Continue]

GINTA – The last thing we want to deal with in a pandemic is selfishness

January 19, 2021 // 1 Comment

IF THIS FEELS LIKE déjà vu… well, it is. Part of it anyway. The part about people choosing to gather in large numbers in the streets to protest, yet again, masks and [Continue]

KNOX – As councillor apologizes, Horgan eyes inter-provincial travel ban

January 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

SHARMARKE DUBOW apologized again Thursday. “By travelling to see my family at a time when so many others in our community did not do the same, I let you down,” he told [Continue]