Local Voices

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]

LETTER – Hospital staff needs community’s help on parking issue

November 27, 2020 // 8 Comments

I AM WRITING TO SHED LIGHT on the current staff parking situation at Royal Inland Hospital. I would like to start with a letter I wrote out of frustration at an already [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Language and mood of second COVID-19 wave have changed

November 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

THIS SECOND WAVE of the pandemic feels quite different than the first. In the Spring, shoppers emptied store shelves of toilet paper –a curious indicator of what’s [Continue]

GINTA – Schools are still open – should we be worried?

November 24, 2020 // 1 Comment

LAST WEEKEND my eldest announced that someone at NorKam had covid-19. That was according to social media, which of course, I said then, has a 50 percent chance of being [Continue]

KNOX – In an ocean of COVID, many are reluctant to grab a life jacket

November 22, 2020 // 2 Comments

HEY, REMEMBER 2019, when we all got freaked out about anti-vaxxer parents recklessly allowing their kids to spread measles in B.C.’s school system? Good times, good times. [Continue]

PETERS – No, the cure for COVID-19 is not worse than the disease

November 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

DR. BONNIE HENRY HAS SPENT about nine months in the middle of an impossible struggle. On the one side, she is being tugged by those who believe her actions to stop the [Continue]