Local Voices

FORSETH – Cost of new shelter for the homeless is way out of whack

December 1, 2024 // 6 Comments

A STORY by Levi Landry, just the other day in InfoNews, stated: A former Kamloops RV dealership on the North Shore is poised to spend the next two years as a homeless shelter [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Decline of mainstream media hurts democracy

November 28, 2024 // 9 Comments

DEMOCRACY DEPENDS on an informed citizenry. Without it, as we have seen in the U.S., tyrannical leaders can emerge. An informed citizenry depends on professional journalists. [Continue]

IN THE HOUSE – ‘ Prime minister pours more fuel on the fires of inflation’

November 23, 2024 // 1 Comment

Excerpt from Oral Questions (Question Period) in the House of Commons on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024): Frank Caputo (Conservative) Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo, BC Mr. Speaker, [Continue]

FORSETH – NDP may be putting our great-grandchildren into debt

November 22, 2024 // 7 Comments

I’LL FREELY ADMIT IT – there’s something about the NDP’s Ravi Parmar that just rubs me the wrong way. And the following just further reinforced that. Forests [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Trump’s health tzar plans to remove fluorides from water

November 21, 2024 // 6 Comments

PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health. Kennedy has an ambitious agenda, one of them to remove fluoride from water. [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – America and the triumph of the oligarchy

November 14, 2024 // 10 Comments

IIT’S BEEN YEARS in the making but with the arrival of president-elect Trump, America’s oligarchy is near completion. The transformation from a democracy to an [Continue]