Local Voices

FORSETH – Conservative merger: focus on the 95 per cent, not the other five

July 24, 2017 // 2 Comments

NEXT DOOR in Alberta over the weekend, members of the Progressive Conservative Party — and the Wildrose Party — both agreed to a merger. And how was that hailed by the [Continue]

VIEWPOINT – Will wildfires make us stronger?

July 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

I DID NOT realize how horrible wildfires are until I lived through this season in B.C. Going through something is totally different than hearing about it, even when we’re [Continue]

GINTA – Food should never be wasted

July 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

SINCE MOVING to Kamloops five years ago I continue to be amazed at the abundance of summer bounty materialized as fresh produce. I will never reconcile to the presence of [Continue]

COLLINS – Proof is in the pudding

July 24, 2017 // 1 Comment

IT WAS GOOD to see Premier Horgan talking about the B.C. wildfire situation in his first days in office, and good to have two cabinet ministers and a parliamentary secretary [Continue]

KNOX – No butts about it, those cigarette-flickers burn us all

July 23, 2017 // 2 Comments

News item: Forest fires are raging throughout the B.C. Interior. One on northern Vancouver Island was thought to be human-caused. News item: Improperly discarded cigarettes [Continue]

PETERS – Wildfires part of the rent we pay for living in paradise

July 22, 2017 // 2 Comments

WHEN I WAS young, growing up on the prairies, B.C. was a mythical place. The rugged mountains and pristine lakes were the stuff of postcards and TV fishing shows, not real [Continue]