Local Voices

COFFEE WITH THE MAYOR – ‘I’ll just keep working for a safer community’

May 26, 2024 // 12 Comments

Several years ago I had a segment on CBC Radio called Coffee with the Armchair Mayor, in which I had conversations with various people on current topics. Given what’s going [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – AI is hungry for electricity, thirsty for water

May 23, 2024 // 0 Comments

WE HEAR A LOT about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence but little about mundane things such as how to feed the lumbering savant. The promise is that generative [Continue]

CITY COUNCIL – Answers to the question, ‘What work is getting done’?

May 22, 2024 // 11 Comments

By KELLY HALL Kamloops City Councillor MUNICIPAL COUNCILS are empowered to address the existing and future needs of a community by making collective decisions that are [Continue]

MILOBAR – NDP’s soft-on-crime policies to blame for increase in gang violence

May 18, 2024 // 3 Comments

By PETER MILOBAR MLA, Kamloops-North Thompson ACROSS BRITISH COLUMBIA, communities are facing an unprecedented crisis of gang violence that the NDP government seems unwilling [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – ‘In Kamloops, we have open gang war and unchecked violence’

May 16, 2024 // 2 Comments

Excerpt from Question Period on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Hon. M. Farnworth: We are going to do everything we can to keep communities safe, and it’s working. T. Stone: [Continue]

JOHNSON – Weekend essay: Why book bans are never a good idea

May 12, 2024 // 1 Comment

MEL ROTHENBURGER’s editorial a while back, Wokeism reigns with banning of classics from School libraries, opens up a much larger discussion regarding book censorship in [Continue]