Local Voices

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]

McQUARRIE – More Father Knows Best – The back door to legislating morality

January 23, 2018 // 1 Comment

LAST WEEK’S column on the perils of pot and how Father Knows Best, drew a number of responses but one in particular caught my eye. In this case, the reader felt City [Continue]

GINTA – Do we need to redefine what teenagers really are?

January 22, 2018 // 0 Comments

WHEN I WAS 12 or so, I became aware that some elderly people around me, relatives or not, had been married or were forced by various life circumstances to become an [Continue]