Local Voices

PETERS – Interior Health should take responsibility for maternity snafu

March 2, 2019 // 1 Comment

FEWER AND FEWER PEOPLE are settling in the towns where they grew up nowadays. And when they look for a place to live long term — maybe start a family — they will choose a [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Mexico could ease Canada’s cannabis problem

March 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

THE PLAN TO DRIVE illegal cannabis growers out of business is going slowly. The problem is supplying enough legal cannabis to lower retail prices. Eventually illegal sellers [Continue]

BEPPLE – If City councillors add evening meetings, they should be paid more

February 27, 2019 // 3 Comments

CITY OF KAMLOOPS Coun. Dale Bass has found out that City council meets on Tuesdays during the day, and she wants to change it. Actually, she knew it all along, from her years [Continue]

GINTA – Search and Rescue funding must be included in budget planning

February 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

I HAVE NEVER been in a situation where I had to be rescued by one of the SAR groups in our province. But like everyone else, I have been hearing and reading a lot of stories [Continue]

KNOX – Host the Oscars? No way, I don’t want to be mobbed on social media

February 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

THE ACADEMY AWARDS are on tonight, and I am afraid. Afraid that in the absence of all other alternatives, I will be grabbed off the street and press-ganged into hosting the [Continue]

PETERS – We need a new approach to drug trade before more bystanders die

February 23, 2019 // 1 Comment

ALMOST EXACTLY A MONTH AGO, we asked in this space why we can’t have a nice, peaceful drug trade. This was just a few days after a double homicide RCMP told us was [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – Tributes to ‘respectful and fair’ NL stalwart Angelo Iacobucci

February 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

Comments by Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone and Langley East MLA Rich Coleman in the B.C. Legislature today, Feb. 21, 2019. T. Stone: Recently Kamloops lost a [Continue]

GINTA – Is this the kind of world we want to live in?

February 20, 2019 // 1 Comment

HERE’S THE THING: I never envisioned that students and teachers at a Kamloops school could be the target of a deadly plot. When the explanatory email came from the [Continue]

NEUSTAETER – Room for improvement in communicating police incidents

February 19, 2019 // 1 Comment

By KATIE NEUSTAETER CFJC Today A SIGNIFICANT POLICE INCIDENT incident played out in my neighbourhood on Thursday morning last week at a home within a five-minute walk of our [Continue]

McQUARRIE – The question inevitably arises, ‘Who’s going to pay for it?’

February 17, 2019 // 6 Comments

“WHO’S GOING to pay for it?” It’s the battle cry of many when it comes to ideas that would improve society and if I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard this, [Continue]

KNOX – Great Bear Rainforest film a ‘catalyst for conversation’

February 17, 2019 // 2 Comments

IAN McALLISTER’S new Great Bear Rainforest film isn’t just an Imax movie. It’s an international awareness project meant to help save a breathtaking, fragile [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Taxpayers or ratepayers – who pays Hydro’s debt?

February 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

FOR DECADES, B.C. governments have hidden the true cost of BC Hydro rates — but especially the BC Liberals. Under the direction of the BC Liberals, the Crown utility used [Continue]

PETERS – Kamloops won’t end up with as many cannabis shops as it seems

February 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

HOW MANY FLOWER STORES do we have in Kamloops? How many coffee shops or shoe stores? You don’t know, do you? That’s understandable. But by now, you are probably [Continue]

O’REILLY – The shocking truth about Kamloops’ love affair with automobiles

February 16, 2019 // 2 Comments

OVER THE LAST THREE MONTHS, Kamloops’ newly elected council has been going through a rigorous orientation that has included nearly 50 hours of facility tours, education [Continue]