Local Voices

CHARBONNEAU – One big grid would solve our future electricity needs

May 30, 2024 // 1 Comment

WE FACE TWO PROBLEMS that a Trans Canada electrical grid would solve. Renewable sources face a storage problem. When the wind blows and the sun shines, turbines and solar [Continue]

RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS – ‘Reflections on the Third Anniversary of Le Estcwicwéy ̓’

May 28, 2024 // 1 Comment

Statement posted Monday, May 27, 2024, on Tḱemlúps te Secwépemc website by Kúkpi7 Rosanne Casimir (Chief) on behalf of Council: May 23, 2021, marks the day that [Continue]

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]