Local Voices

BEPPLE – Housing solutions illustrate the collective values of Kamloops

March 28, 2019 // 0 Comments

WHAT ARE THE VALUES of Kamloops? How do we see ourselves? Who do we want as our leaders? Those were questions we’ve grappled with this week. On Thursday, March 21, news [Continue]

FORSETH – Telling those addicted to drugs ‘we love you’ isn’t cutting it

March 26, 2019 // 1 Comment

ON THURSDAY (March 21) the BC Coroners Service released updated statistics on deaths among homeless individuals, in British Columbia, to the end of December 2016. Those who [Continue]

GINTA – For the love of trees – imagine if we didn’t have them

March 26, 2019 // 1 Comment

DID YOU KNOW that March 21 is the International Day of Forests? It was established back in 2012 by the United Nations General Assembly. Not many people know that because it [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Learning to embrace economic futility and love taxes

March 24, 2019 // 1 Comment

By DAVID JOHNSON I ALREADY WROTE about the politicking surrounding the budget speech, Scheer, Wilson-Raybould, SNC Lavalin, desk slamming and filibusters, etc, etc, etc. [Continue]

KNOX – ‘Compassion and love’ behind chain of humanity at mosque

March 24, 2019 // 1 Comment

SOMETIMES IT’S IMPORTANT to just get off your butt, stick your hand in the air and say you’re on the side of love and humanity. “All the people showing up today, [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – SNC, JWR, budget day, and all I want is my lasagna

March 23, 2019 // 4 Comments

Even though the Conservative filibuster is being explained to us as a political ploy or even rebellion, what it ended up being about was the Conservatives actually voting to [Continue]