Local Voices

COLLINS – It’s time to lower the boom on people who cause wildfires

July 31, 2017 // 3 Comments

THE NUMBER of fires caused by discarded cigarettes is escalating, and there is no question that no matter how wildfires are started, except those caused by Mother Nature of [Continue]

FORSETH – Good-bye, Christy, let the next chapter in B.C. politics begin

July 30, 2017 // 1 Comment

EARLY IN THE MORNING Friday, I go outside to work in the yard and the next thing I know Christy Clark had resigned. Let me tell you, if I’d known sooner, that was all [Continue]

KNOX – The people of Kamloops really know how to throw an Apocalypse

July 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

GIVE THIS to the people of Kamloops: They know how to throw an Apocalypse. When the wildfires hit and the evacuees poured in — thousands of them from such places as [Continue]

NEWSTROM – Intuition, luck, or God saved this faller’s life one winter’s day

July 30, 2017 // 3 Comments

THAT DAY, either God or luck saved my life. Yet, it may have been my own intuition. It took me years to understand that but what I knew that day was much, much less. For [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Populism has lost its meaning

July 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

USE OF THE WORD populism has become more popular says Sylvia Stead, public editor of the Globe and Mail: “There has certainly been a surge in references to ‘populist’ [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Is the chamber of commerce still relevant?

July 25, 2017 // 1 Comment

LAST WEEK at City Council, the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce was a topic of conversation and concern. In a letter to the City, the Chamber, on behalf of all their members, [Continue]