Local Voices

COLLINS – Local media still the best way to communicate in emergencies

June 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

A NEW STUDY released yesterday shows the struggle many Fort McMurray residents had trying to find answers in last year’s devastating wildfire. An analysis of 70,000 tweets [Continue]

FORSETH – Death sentence faced by garbage bears is our fault

June 20, 2017 // 5 Comments

WHY EXACTLY is the City of Kamloops not issuing fines to people who put garbage out the night before pick-up? Last Thursday, in an article (Garbage pointed to as culprit in [Continue]

COLLINS – Accessible Kamloops – fact or fiction?

June 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

WE HAVE spent the past week talking about Access 4 All. It’s all about showcasing some of the things we’re doing to make Kamloops more accessible for those who have [Continue]

KNOX – We Canadians have adopted ‘eh’ as a point of pride, eh?

June 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

JUST IN TIME for Canada’s 150th, here’s a surprise: We don’t really say “eh” that much. “ ‘Eh’ is used relatively infrequently in Canadian English,” Derek [Continue]

FORSETH – Guess which govt news releases were before election, and after

June 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

CARE TO GUESS which of the following news story starts, from the B.C. Government News on Demand website, ran prior to the start of the B.C. provincial election — and [Continue]

PETERS – Health concerns trump all in Ajax report

June 16, 2017 // 3 Comments

AS MY LEARNED colleague, Mr. Armchair Mayor, pointed out earlier this week, the final report from SLR Consulting on the KGHM-Ajax environmental application was a mixed bag. [Continue]