Local Voices

CHARBONNEAU – Freedom convoyers have replaced hippies as protestors

February 15, 2024 // 3 Comments

IT USED TO BE that hippies took to the streets with grievances. Now it’s freedom convoyers. The nature of hippies’ complaints were easy to identify. Freedom convoyers not [Continue]

JOHNSON – Response to MLA Todd Stone on changes to the B.C. Land Act

February 11, 2024 // 4 Comments

MR. TODD STONE (MLA Kamloops-South Thompson) recently wrote a piece published on this Armchair Mayor news site with the headline, NDP’s Land Act changes will give [Continue]

PETERS – I want to live in a city that builds things

February 10, 2024 // 6 Comments

I WANT TO LIVE IN A CITY that builds things. It seems simple enough to say and something we take as a given, but for decades now, we in Kamloops have not lived in that kind [Continue]

STONE – NDP’s Land Act changes will give de-facto veto to First Nations

February 9, 2024 // 5 Comments

By TODD STONE MLA, Kamloops-South Thompson PUBLIC LAND belongs to the public. It’s a simple concept and one that I am sure the vast majority of British Columbians agree [Continue]

JOHNSON – The Ottawa truck convoy and why democracy is hard

February 9, 2024 // 1 Comment

A FEDERAL JUDGE says the 2022 Liberal government’s use of the Emergencies Act in order to remove convoy protesters was unreasonable and infringed on protesters’ [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Liberals lack spine in failure to provide MAID to mentally ill

February 8, 2024 // 6 Comments

BEHIND IN THE POLLS, the federal Liberals have delayed access of MAID to those suffering from mental illness again. After three years of delay, the feds are bowing to [Continue]