BEPPLE – Living together is messy, complicated and complex
LOCAL GOVERNMEN is many things, but at its core is finding better ways to live together in relatively close quarters. Take garbage, for example. Yesterday, City of Kamloops [Continue]
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KNOX – A punk legend’s advice for new city councillors: be a sponge
PUNK LEGENDS D.O.A., fronted by the aging but still raging Joey Shithead, play the Victoria Event Centre this Saturday. On Tuesday, Coun. Joe Keithley will ponder [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Provinces come to their senses on healthcare money
ORDINARILY, provinces only want one thing from the feds – money. So when the feds offer money in exchange for something, provinces are reluctant to accept. All that has [Continue]
BEPPLE – Strategic plans make a difference, even when things don’t go as planned
THIS WEEK, Kamloops City council sits down to make the strategic plan for the next four years. Myself and other council members will set down goals for what we want to [Continue]
KNOX – Empress reigns on haunted-hotel list thanks to Lizzie the chambermaid — among others
CHAMBERMAID LIZZIE McGRATH stepped onto the Empress Hotel fire escape to say her rosary, just as she did every night before retiring to her sixth-storey room. Alas, what [Continue]
COLLINS – Safety protocols in sports still have a long way to go
IT WAS IRONIC that I was just about finished reading a book on concussions in the NHL when I got the news notification that Gino Odjick had passed away at 52. He died of a [Continue]
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