Local Voices

BEPPLE – TRU must come to the table to relieve pressure on city’s housing stock

June 6, 2018 // 1 Comment

I LIVE NEAR a bottle depot, so it is not unusual for me to see someone with all their possessions pushing a shopping cart down my street. But Kamloops is small enough, that [Continue]

IN THE HOUSE – ‘Why does PM think bonuses for oil executives acceptable?’

June 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

Debate during Question Period on Monday, June 4, 2018 between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer on bonuses paid to Kinder Morgan executives: [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Charlotte Whitton would not have been pleased with ‘Run’ forum

June 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

I’M GOING TO TAKE ON a subject this week that, for an opinion writer, is fraught with peril and affords an even higher degree of risk when said writer is male, white [Continue]

GINTA – So many things we take for granted

June 4, 2018 // 0 Comments

THE RAIN PICKS UP as we pass Williams Lake. We had left behind a sunny Quesnel after a return trip to Barkerville, which we first got to see three years ago. A lot has [Continue]

KNOX – Towing the line is getting tougher in this age of declining civility

June 3, 2018 // 1 Comment

TOW-TRUCK DRIVERS don’t expect hugs. Nobody likes having their car towed after getting caught breaking the rules, and nobody likes making their way to the storage yard to [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – ‘Partisan NDP hacks dispatched to non-partisan offices’

May 31, 2018 // 3 Comments

‘The member from Kamloops is no longer talking about grilled cheese sandwiches’ Excerpt from Question Period in the B.C. Legislature on Thursday, May 31, 2018, on [Continue]