Local Voices

BEPPLE – New name for B.C. Day would be another step toward reconciliation

August 7, 2019 // 3 Comments

IN TERMS OF LONG WEEKENDS, this is the best time of year. We’ve just had B.C. Day, and just before that it was Canada Day. Within a month, there’s Labour Day. B.C. Day [Continue]

GINTA – We have it so good here

August 7, 2019 // 1 Comment

THERE’S NO OTHER way to put it. Being away from Kamloops for a few days makes it ring true, yet again. It happens mostly when I am stuck in slow traffic as I approach [Continue]

McQUARRIE – ‘Canada will never run of oil, like we never ran out of beavers’

August 4, 2019 // 4 Comments

‘WE DON’T EXPORT beaver pelts any more and I can assure you it isn’t because we ran out of beavers. In fact, we can’t get rid of the #@&ing little things. [Continue]

BEPPLE – It’s business as usual for Canada and U.S. with Saudi Arabia

July 31, 2019 // 2 Comments

THIS WEEK (July 30), Trump used his presidential veto to prevent a bill blocking arms sales to Saudi Arabia, passed by both chambers of U.S. Congress, from proceeding. The [Continue]

GINTA – Good food grows close to home

July 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

HAVE YOU READ THE ONE about the fake honey? There is lots of it in Canada, almost 23 percent of the tested samples proved to be sticky mix of corn syrup and sugar derived [Continue]

KNOX – Murray Rankin’s ‘daunting’ role as Canada’s new spy watchdog

July 28, 2019 // 0 Comments

YOU CAN JUST ABOUT hear Murray Rankin gulp over the phone from Ottawa. “Let’s be honest, it’s daunting,” the Victoria MP says of his new challenge. “But it’s so [Continue]