Local Voices

GUEST COLUMN – We were like family, but that has been lost forever

March 2, 2025 // 6 Comments

By JEREMY HEIGHTON Guest Columnist I recently visited the U.S. and i must apologize to my American friends, but, you wont be seeing me for a while. It has been just over a [Continue]

IN THE SHADOW OF THE HILLS – Navigating challenges in Kamloops

March 1, 2025 // 3 Comments

By Dr. PANAGIOTIS (Peter) TSIGARIS Thompson Rivers University THIS EDITORIAL is to introduce to the readers a book I wrote with my senior undergraduate students entitled In [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Tory support has been shaken by Trumpquake

February 27, 2025 // 4 Comments

CONSERVATIVES FELT the ground shift beneath their feet with the election of Trump and the resignation of Trudeau. Support for the federal Conservatives has been in freefall [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Add America to the countries that threaten our democracy

February 20, 2025 // 2 Comments

SO FAR, FIVE NATIONS globally have been identified as being a threat to Canada’s democracy. Now we need to add our former ally. Trump intends to cajole and pressure [Continue]

JOHNSON – Would someone tell the B.C. government we don’t live in Vancouver?

February 18, 2025 // 2 Comments

REGARDING THE BC Speculation and Vacancy Tax Declaration we have all have to make before march. This has nothing to do with the details of the appropriateness of said tax, I [Continue]

FORSETH – Interprovincial trade remains tangled in protectionism

February 18, 2025 // 2 Comments

NOTE: The following column by Alan Forseth was first publish on March 4, 2019. He says that “Since then, there’s been little done to ensure that trade [Continue]