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Local Voices

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]

MILOBAR – Government’s plan for killing moose is hard to follow

June 11, 2020 // 2 Comments

By PETER MILOBAR MLA, Kamloops-North Thompson HOW WILL KILLING MOOSE calves and mothers save the endangered mountain caribou? This is a question on the minds of many British [Continue]

GINTA – Let’s stop being bystanders to domestic abuse

June 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

I WAS PLANNING TO MAKE THIS COLUMN about the often-forgotten pandemic which is the logging of B.C.’s old-growth forests but on Saturday morning I came across a story that [Continue]

BEPPLE – Do we pick the gun or the butter knife for frontline policing?

June 10, 2020 // 2 Comments

HAVING THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT makes all the difference. You don’t take a butter knife to a gun fight. And you shouldn’t take a gun, when a butter knife will do. In the [Continue]

FORSETH – The piper will have to be paid for all the COVID-19 spending

June 9, 2020 // 10 Comments

SOMEHOW I CANNOT help be feel a very LARGE disaster is looming on the near horizon – all of it due to COVID-19, and the accumulating provisos that have and continue to be [Continue]

PETERS – Organizers of protest succeeded in spite of themselves

June 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

THURSDAY’S PROTEST AND MARCH through downtown Kamloops may have been one of the most successful cancelled events ever. Just over an hour before the Black Lives Matter [Continue]

KNOX – There’s a bunch of stuff white Canadians don’t have to put up with

June 7, 2020 // 3 Comments

OUR JOKE IS that Lindsay Wong and I are doppelgangers, because we aren’t. She’s young, female, stylish, Asian, Ivy League-educated and a bunch of other things I am not. [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Re-emergence of economy must be done carefully

June 5, 2020 // 1 Comment

CANADA’S ECONOMY has been placed in an induced coma since it was infected with the novel coronavirus. Arousal from the coma must be done carefully to avoid a [Continue]

BEPPLE – It will be the peacemakers who lead us out of troubled times

June 3, 2020 // 2 Comments

THERE IS NO RACISM in Canada. That’s what media commentator Rex Murphy and retired politician Stockwell Day both said this week. So it must be true. Who better to [Continue]

FORSETH – Wherever we live, isn’t one Kent State enough for a lifetime?

June 3, 2020 // 2 Comments

YESTERDAY ON SOCIAL MEDIA, I posted a story from Kamloops This Week, in which Kamloops City Councillor Arjun Singh was quoted. According to the story, Singh criticized U.S. [Continue]