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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]