Local Voices

GINTA – Maybe we should take a better look at what our children are using

January 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

WE LIVE CLOSE to one of the public high schools, which means that on any given day during lunch break, there is a stream of teens walking in front of our house, many of them [Continue]

KNOX – The tsunami that wasn’t illustrated how unprepared we are

January 28, 2018 // 0 Comments

SO, HOW DID you react when you heard about the tsunami that wasn’t? Did you call 911 to ask for advice? That’s precisely what you’re not supposed to do, but people did [Continue]

PETERS – The time will soon come for the privatization of Canada Post

January 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

THIS WEEK’S announcement that the Liberals will freeze conversions to community mailboxes is the classic definition of compromise: it is bound to make no one happy. The [Continue]

JOHNSON – Summer Jobs changes not about forcing people to accept abortion

January 27, 2018 // 4 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON Guest Columnist THERE SEEMS TO BE a massive amount of rhetoric with the new attestation requirements of the Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) Program. There is a lot [Continue]

POLITICS – De Jong looks like leading contender in BC Liberal leadership race

January 26, 2018 // 3 Comments

By SANDY MacDOUGALL ‘The Sidewinder’ THE NEED to campaign effectively with a united front to defeat the NDP’s proposed preferential ballot referendum, to be [Continue]

DUDY – All issues in front of council come down to the matter of money

January 26, 2018 // 1 Comment

By DIETER DUDY City Councillor, Kamloops IN EARLY NOVEMBER of 2017 staff put forth a recommendation to council regarding a parking study for the downtown sector. To be fair [Continue]