Local Voices

KNOX – Host the Oscars? No way, I don’t want to be mobbed on social media

February 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

THE ACADEMY AWARDS are on tonight, and I am afraid. Afraid that in the absence of all other alternatives, I will be grabbed off the street and press-ganged into hosting the [Continue]

PETERS – We need a new approach to drug trade before more bystanders die

February 23, 2019 // 1 Comment

ALMOST EXACTLY A MONTH AGO, we asked in this space why we can’t have a nice, peaceful drug trade. This was just a few days after a double homicide RCMP told us was [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – Tributes to ‘respectful and fair’ NL stalwart Angelo Iacobucci

February 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

Comments by Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone and Langley East MLA Rich Coleman in the B.C. Legislature today, Feb. 21, 2019. T. Stone: Recently Kamloops lost a [Continue]

GINTA – Is this the kind of world we want to live in?

February 20, 2019 // 1 Comment

HERE’S THE THING: I never envisioned that students and teachers at a Kamloops school could be the target of a deadly plot. When the explanatory email came from the [Continue]

NEUSTAETER – Room for improvement in communicating police incidents

February 19, 2019 // 1 Comment

By KATIE NEUSTAETER CFJC Today A SIGNIFICANT POLICE INCIDENT incident played out in my neighbourhood on Thursday morning last week at a home within a five-minute walk of our [Continue]

McQUARRIE – The question inevitably arises, ‘Who’s going to pay for it?’

February 17, 2019 // 6 Comments

“WHO’S GOING to pay for it?” It’s the battle cry of many when it comes to ideas that would improve society and if I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard this, [Continue]