Local Voices

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]

IN THE LEDGE – ‘In Kamloops, we have open gang war and unchecked violence’

May 16, 2024 // 2 Comments

Excerpt from Question Period on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Hon. M. Farnworth: We are going to do everything we can to keep communities safe, and it’s working. T. Stone: [Continue]

JOHNSON – Weekend essay: Why book bans are never a good idea

May 12, 2024 // 1 Comment

MEL ROTHENBURGER’s editorial a while back, Wokeism reigns with banning of classics from School libraries, opens up a much larger discussion regarding book censorship in [Continue]

TEGART – NDP isn’t on the ball when it comes to actioning wildfires

May 10, 2024 // 1 Comment

By JACKIE TEGART MLA, Fraser-Nicola IT SEEMS LIKE every year, the wildfire season in British Columbia intensifies, devastating families and communities. This year, wildfires [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Huxley’s futuristic solution to the ‘drug problem’

May 9, 2024 // 7 Comments

ALDOUS HUXLEY came up with a solution to the drug problem of the day in his dystopian novel Brave New World. Huxley’s book is set in the World State city of London in AD [Continue]