Local Voices

IN THE LEDGE – ‘Decriminalization is causing chaos in our communities’

April 23, 2024 // 7 Comments

Excerpt from Question Period in the B.C. Legislature on Monday, April 22, 2024. T. Stone: Every single day there’s more damning evidence that piles up against this [Continue]

COLLINS – New wildfire training centre has great potential

April 23, 2024 // 0 Comments

IT WILL TAKE a while, but when a new wildfire training and education centre opens down the road, it could well provide a focal point for vast improvements in how we [Continue]

MILOBAR – Disorganized responses of NDP undermine trust on drug issues

April 23, 2024 // 0 Comments

By PETER MILOBAR MLA, Kamloops-North Thompson RECENTLY EXPOSED internal communications and firsthand accounts have revealed that drug use in B.C. hospitals is not only [Continue]

COLLINS – ‘Fairness’ is not a word I’d use to describe the federal budget

April 19, 2024 // 0 Comments

THE DAY AFTER the ‘Fairness’ budget was presented Tuesday (Apr. 16), Prime Minister Trudeau talked about how his budget was going to give priority to the millennials and [Continue]

IN THE HOUSE – ‘Violent offenders get cable, a canteen, and a beautiful gym’

April 19, 2024 // 5 Comments

MP Frank Caputo continues his focus on murderers Paul Bernardo and Luka Magnotta during Question Period on Thursday, April 18, 2024. Frank Caputo [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – How will history write this age of tumult?

April 18, 2024 // 3 Comments

WE LIVE IN AN AGE of upheaval and uncertainty. How will it end? What was the start? Did our current epoch start with the havoc of COVID: supply chain disruptions with panic [Continue]