Local Voices

CHARBONNEAU – Pandemic exposes failings of long-term care facilities

June 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

IN 2002, THE BC LIBERALS had a grand plan to provide seniors with home-like settings. Added to that, they promised that the new residences would cost the government about [Continue]

HEIGHTON – Some ideas for redefining street outreach and police work

June 18, 2020 // 3 Comments

By JEREMY HEIGHTON Executive Director, NSBIA THERE HAS BEEN A TON of press lately about de-funding police, and changing the way that policing is done in Canada and around the [Continue]

BEPPLE – Boards need more diversity to reflect the many faces of Kamloops

June 17, 2020 // 3 Comments

PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU stated this week that systemic racism will be eliminated from federal government institutions and agencies. The question is how? What I [Continue]

GINTA – Let’s fall in love with B.C. this summer and remember to protect it

June 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

I’LL START WITH A CONFESSION: I have never been to a tropical place for a vacation. Maybe I will one day, but I’m not in a hurry. It’s not that I don’t like white [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Boomers – we didn’t defeat the man, we became the man

June 14, 2020 // 3 Comments

I AM OLD ENOUGH to have watched and been inspired by President Kennedy as he explained in a 1963 speech why desegregation of schools and universities in Alabama was [Continue]

KNOX – This year has proven that if anything can go wrong, it will

June 14, 2020 // 1 Comment

CONGRATULATIONS. If you’re reading this, it means you were not killed by an asteroid the size of a football stadium. Yes, there was one in the neighbourhood, but evidently [Continue]