Peters

PETERS – Trajectory troubling but no reason to change COVID-19 approach

August 15, 2020 // 1 Comment

DR. BONNIE HENRY was asked a ridiculous question at Thursday’s media briefing. The question was, “Because the approach B.C. has taken since March doesn’t seem to be [Continue]

PETERS: Bill Morneau has been skating on thin ethical ice for years

July 25, 2020 // 1 Comment

THE MORE DAYS WE PUT IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR, the more difficult it becomes to remember them, it seems. As an example, when I began to contemplate a column this week calling [Continue]

PETERS – Horgan’s verbal diarrhea on the overdose crisis a serious misstep

July 18, 2020 // 2 Comments

A DELEGATION TO KAMLOOPS COUNCIL this week emphasized the importance of minding our language when talking about addiction and substance use disorder. Two days later, it [Continue]

PETERS – Don’t wait too long to revive the performing arts centre proposal

July 11, 2020 // 1 Comment

IF YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT GOT YOU THROUGH the worst depths of the pandemic isolation, you will probably land on some form of performing arts. Maybe you leaned heavily on [Continue]

PETERS – Will the pandemic cause us to rethink how we care for our seniors?

July 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

AS WE GET OLDER, our worlds tend to get smaller. By the time we are elderly and perhaps living in seniors apartments or a longterm care facility, our worlds can be [Continue]

PETERS – Trading Tourism Kamloops visitor centre for Jeep a head scratcher

June 27, 2020 // 2 Comments

TOURISM KAMLOOPS has done a lot of great marketing for this city over the years, but a decision it made this week should raise some serious concerns from the local [Continue]

PETERS – Urgent need for leadership and action at Stump Lake

June 20, 2020 // 1 Comment

THE BOAT LAUNCHES ARE OPENING UP up Friday (June 19). And with that, the flood threat was nearly over. The above normal snowpack we received last winter came down about as [Continue]

PETERS – Organizers of protest succeeded in spite of themselves

June 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

THURSDAY’S PROTEST AND MARCH through downtown Kamloops may have been one of the most successful cancelled events ever. Just over an hour before the Black Lives Matter [Continue]

PETERS – Is this what American exceptionalism looks like?

May 30, 2020 // 2 Comments

YOU MAY NOT HAVE HEARD OF THE TERM ‘American exceptionalism’, but there’s no doubt you’ve experienced the concept before. It’s the idea that the United States, due [Continue]

PETERS – Grit your teeth and be kind to the Albertan horde this long weekend

May 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT’S THE MAY LONG WEEKEND and that means British Columbians are once again preparing for an invasion. It happens every year: our eastern flank is overwhelmed and our [Continue]

PETERS – We don’t always agree with mom but we don’t doubt her motives

May 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

THE METAPHOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AS A FAMILY is one that extends beyond the surface. And Dr. Bonnie Henry is clearly our mother in that metaphor. Rather than responding to [Continue]

PETERS – Govt restrictions have left us in a terrible place but it could be worse

May 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

FRIDAY’S ANNOUNCEMENT of a ban on the trade of military-style weaponry presented an interesting dichotomy with some of the images coming out of the United States. A protest [Continue]

PETERS – National inquiry must be held into Nova Scotia massacre

April 25, 2020 // 0 Comments

THERE WILL BE NO TRIAL of Gabriel Wortman in the Nova Scotia massacre from last weekend. Wortman is dead, and while that fact will not elicit tears from anyone, it does mean [Continue]