Local Voices

BEPPLE – Reconciliation between Settlers and Indigenous requires action

February 8, 2023 // 1 Comment

RECONCILIATION BETWEEN Settlers and Indigenous people in Canada is an ongoing process. Reconciliation is not one event, but a continual flow of actions. This last week, [Continue]

IN THE HOUSE – Auditor General should investigate spending on McKinsey

February 7, 2023 // 0 Comments

Comments by Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Frank Caputo yesterday (Feb. 6, 2023) during a committee debate over the government’s use of the McKinsey consulting firm. The [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Why all the conflict? City Hall antics are a bit bush league

February 6, 2023 // 14 Comments

By DENIS WALSH IS OUR CITY ADMINISTRATION operating under a double standard? And did Coun. Neustaeter intend to be so blatant with her not-so-veiled threat? Aren’t recent [Continue]

COLLINS – Next step in the mayor’s saga comes tomorrow

February 5, 2023 // 6 Comments

TOMORROW NIGHT (Feb. 6), the Board of Education for School District 73 jumps into the best-seller, The Saga of RHJ. The mayor, who has already jumped into the mud with [Continue]

PETERS – Decriminalization is a big paradigm shift — but a much more subtle change in practice

February 4, 2023 // 0 Comments

THE DECISION TO DECRIMINALIZE POSSESSION of small amounts of hard drugs shouldn’t be seen as either the end of the world, nor the magic bullet that will finally bring the [Continue]

STONE – ‘Better is possible’ in doing something about B.C.’s toxic drug crisis

February 4, 2023 // 1 Comment

By TODD STONE MLA, Kamloops-South Thompson THIS WEEK, the B.C. Coroners Service released year-end numbers that showed 2,272 lives were lost to a toxic drug overdose in 2022. [Continue]