Local Voices

KNOX – No reefer madness as legalization begins in Great Weed North

October 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

TOMMY CHONG almost didn’t make it to Victoria on Wednesday. The 80-year-old Canadian cannabis legend was scheduled to mark the first day of legalization in the Great Weed [Continue]

PETERS – Not a person in Kamloops could have defeated Ken Christian

October 21, 2018 // 1 Comment

THE CONCLUSION of Saturday’s mayoral election in Kamloops was as foregone as the conclusion to the movie Titanic. Ken Christian was going to defeat William Turnbull, [Continue]

HEIGHTON – Community policing is broken, we need to find solutions

October 20, 2018 // 3 Comments

By JEREMY HEIGHTON North Shore BIA THIS WEEK, I HAD to encourage a member to call the RCMP and press charges to have a squatter removed from his property. It was [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Royal Proclamation of 1763 was basis for our constitution

October 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

MORE THAN A CENTURY before the confederation of Canada in 1867, the Royal Proclamation of 1763 established a basis of government in North America. Peter Russell, in his book [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Thanks, but no thanks to challenge issued on prop rep

October 17, 2018 // 11 Comments

This guest column is a response to an Open Letter from the Armchair Mayor, published Oct. 11, 2018, challenging Fair Vote Kamloops to publish articles on its Facebook page [Continue]

BEPPLE – It’s now legal, but there are places where pot should not be smoked

October 17, 2018 // 4 Comments

POT MAY NOW BE LEGAL, but it’s a long way from socially acceptable in all circumstances. There are places pot has been smoked for decades. Even before it was legal, the [Continue]