Local Voices

CHARBONNEAU – His and hers health – drugs don’t affect sexes the same way

January 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

MEDICATIONS affect women differently than men but you wouldn’t know it from prescribed drugs. Take the sleep drug Ambien, for example. After the drug had been placed on [Continue]

COLLINS – Is the false message worse than the actual threat?

January 17, 2018 // 0 Comments

IT HAS BEEN pretty scary to watch Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea trade insults and threats over the past few months. The question of which one of them has the [Continue]

McQUARRIE – When it comes to city business bylaws, father knows best

January 16, 2018 // 1 Comment

HAVE YOU EVER wondered if our local government is stuck in the late 1950s sitcom world of Father Knows Best? A world more familiar to their parents and grandparents and a [Continue]

GINTA – Make safety part of your outdoor adventures

January 15, 2018 // 0 Comments

TO SAY THAT WINTER cannot make up its mind this year would be an understatement. It’s been a weather seesaw of sorts since it first snowed in early November. Cold, snowy, [Continue]

KNOX – Why the provincial government wants to expand wolf-trapping program

January 14, 2018 // 1 Comment

THE PROVINCIAL government wants to extend the wolf-trapping season on Vancouver Island. To which you reply: We trap wolves here? Yes, we do, which some people think is [Continue]

PETERS – Creative media discussion positive, but well of ideas drying up

January 13, 2018 // 0 Comments

COUNCILLOR ARJUN SINGH weighed in on the state of local media in Kamloops This Week this week, and of course, like everyone, we’re more than happy to hear ideas on how [Continue]