Local Voices

KNOX – Half-price Maple Leafs poutine a clue to how much we love hockey

August 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

YOU COULDN’T REALLY call the message on the outside the 17 Mile House Pub an advertisement. It’s more of a gleeful taunt: MAPLE LEAFS POUTINE NOW HALF PRICE. What, [Continue]

STONE – NDP’s ever changing back-to-school plan has become frustrating

August 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

By TODD STONE MLA, Kamloops-South Thompson AS HAS BEEN THE CASE for thousands of parents across British Columbia, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about the NDP [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Hide your bathroom scale and watch weight problems disappear

August 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

I HAVE A FEELING that the number of bathroom scales along with their daily use in Canada is the primary reason why so many of us are overweight. We have too many bathroom [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The rocky relationship between CERB, EI and getting back to work

August 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

WHILE PARENTS WORRY about sending their kids back to school in September, millions will be without work and without government assistance. The Canada Emergency Response [Continue]

PETERS – Paint spill is smalltown gossip fodder, not proof teens are terrible

August 22, 2020 // 1 Comment

THE BIG PAINT SPILL this week is something that will go down in the annals of small-town gossip history for Logan Lake. A 16-year-old is accused of emptying a huge paint drum [Continue]

BEPPLE – The importance of having a woman’s voice at the financial table

August 19, 2020 // 5 Comments

WITH THE DEPARTURE of Bill Morneau this week as Minister of Finance under a cloud of WE controversy, another glass ceiling in politics was broken in Canada. Chrystia [Continue]