Local Voices

CHARBONNEAU – Will Trudeau the younger go for a walk in the snow?

March 7, 2024 // 1 Comment

FORTY YEARS AGO, Justin’s father took a walk in the snow. He returned home and sat in his sauna for an hour and a half pondering his future. He went to his office the next [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – 419 ‘Moose’ Squadron’s colours will be stood down Friday

March 6, 2024 // 1 Comment

Remarks by Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Peter Milobar in the B.C. Legislature on Tuesday, March 5, 2024: P. Milobar: This Friday, March 8, the 419 Squadron will have their [Continue]

JOHNSON – Canada’s military and its plan to buy remote operated drones

March 6, 2024 // 4 Comments

THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT confirmed plans last month to spend $2.49 billion on 11 remotely piloted drone aircraft, the same type that we have seen the Americans operate. The [Continue]

PETERS – Fence or overpass, TRU and City can’t wall off their relationship

March 2, 2024 // 4 Comments

THE PROPOSAL FOR AN OVERPASS spanning Summit Drive and leading to the Thompson Rivers University campus is so old, it’s almost eligible to enroll at TRU. It’s so old, I [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Cannabis is not harmless. We never said it was

February 29, 2024 // 2 Comments

WHEN WE FORMED the Calgary chapter of the Alberta Legalization of Cannabis Committee (ALCC) in 1977, we made sure that we didn’t claim it was harmless. It would be foolish [Continue]

JOHNSON – This Boomer says goodbye to Facebook

February 27, 2024 // 1 Comment

SO, I’VE BEEN a Facebook user since about 2007. My kids (and recently a grandkid) have been saying, “Hey Boomer, no one uses Facebook, get with the times.” First [Continue]