Local Voices

PETERS – Cities, like individuals, can support both sports and the arts

February 1, 2020 // 1 Comment

IT WAS INEVITABLE THAT, as the arts centre debate heats up in Kamloops, the comparison to sports facilities is made. We are the Tournament Capital of Canada, after all, so we [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Kamloops homeless population needs to sleep

January 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

KAMLOOPS AGENCIES CARE FOR THE SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL needs of our homeless: faith, food, warmth in the winter, air conditioning in the summer. However, there is no place to [Continue]

BEPPLE – Other pools will become very crowded during aquatic centre closure

January 29, 2020 // 1 Comment

WITH THE UPCOMING closure for six months of the Tournament Capital Centre (TCC) pool in Kamloops, things are going to get busy at Kamloops’ other pools. Having swum for [Continue]

GINTA – Do you use social media to build or destroy?

January 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT WAS MORE RIDICULOUS THAN FUNNY. In fact, it was not funny at all. It so happened that last week, our prime minister stopped by a locally owned doughnut shop in Winnipeg [Continue]

McQUARRIE – A lot of ‘breaking news’ stories sound all too familiar

January 26, 2020 // 2 Comments

WATCHING FROM THE DISTANT and rainy shores of Vancouver Island, I sometimes find myself amused – in a head-scratching kind of way – by breaking news stories in [Continue]

KNOX – Those willing to stand for party leadership are few and far between

January 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

DAVID MERNER spent part of Thursday on the phone to a woman in the Maritimes, urging her to run for the leadership of the federal Green Party. That might seem odd, [Continue]