Local Voices

MILOBAR – Action, not silence, needed from government on street disorder

September 3, 2023 // 7 Comments

By PETER MILOBAR MLA, Kamloops North Thompson WHATEVER DAVID EBY and the NDP think they’re doing to improve public safety in this province, it isn’t working. Several [Continue]

BEPPLE – New bylaw will push more drug use into hidden, unsafe places

September 3, 2023 // 22 Comments

Rather than creating bylaws targeting open drug use, it’s time to find ways to expand harm reduction for smoking and inhalation which is where the majority of deaths are [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Wildfires, pandemics, generate fear and denial

August 31, 2023 // 0 Comments

WHEN FACED WITH something unbelievable, we don’t believe it. At least, that’s the initial reaction. Facts can change our minds and reveal the incredible to be true. For [Continue]

WALSH – Gang of Eight sets up town hall meetings that are no such thing

August 30, 2023 // 12 Comments

WHAT ARE OUR City councillors and administrators so afraid of? It seems they’re only willing to have direct public engagement once every four years. Otherwise, why not hold [Continue]

BEPPLE – No lives lost in latest wave of wildfires but what do we do next?

August 27, 2023 // 10 Comments

IF THERE WAS A GLIMMER of hope, it is that no lives were lost in this latest wave of unrelenting fires. Everyone got out. No firefighters lost their lives either. But with [Continue]

PETERS – This message will self-destruct

August 26, 2023 // 0 Comments

GENERALLY, WE’RE LEARNING MORE and advancing as a society. The arc of history has moved in the direction of wiser decisions based on new discoveries, despite what some [Continue]