Peters

PETERS – It’s time to equip our schools with surveillance cameras

September 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER CHILDISH THREAT against a school in Kamloops. Valleyview Secondary, Sa-Hali Secondary and now Dallas Elementary have been tagged so far. Of course, [Continue]

PETERS – In Kamloops and in Canada, Trudeau’s celebrity sheen has worn off

September 14, 2019 // 1 Comment

WHEN TIMES GOT TOUGH for the Liberals, Justin Trudeau could always count on Justin Trudeau. He could flash that thousand-watt smile, lose the shirt and go for a jog on the [Continue]

PETERS – Alex Trebek, and why simple facts are in jeopardy

August 31, 2019 // 0 Comments

WHEN I WAS QUITE YOUNG, I loved watching the TV show Jeopardy! I remember rushing from school over to my grandparents’ place a block away so I could watch Wheel of Fortune [Continue]

PETERS – Let’s stop calling Kamloops Pride a ‘special interest group’

August 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

WHEN THE IDEA OF FUNDING A RAINBOW CROSSWALK came forward to Kamloops council a couple of weeks back, it was unanimously supported by those around the table. But before they [Continue]

PETERS – Politics as usual from Trudeau may keep undecided voters away

August 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

AUGUST 14 WAS CHRISTMAS MORNING for Andrew Scheer and the federal Conservatives — and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion was playing the part of Santa. Two months ahead of the [Continue]

PETERS – Apollo astronauts embodied human instinct for exploration

July 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE APOLLO 11 mission that saw humans land on the moon for the first time, it is appropriate that we ask the question, what are we doing in space? [Continue]

PETERS – Plastic bags get a bad rap, but we need better options to handle them

July 13, 2019 // 1 Comment

WHEN IT COMES TO the plastic bags we get at the grocery store, the term ‘single-use’ may be a misnomer. Most of the time, it’s really easy to find a second or third use [Continue]

PETERS – With the bottle cap challenge, at least no one ate laundry detergent

July 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

KEEPING UP WITH VIRAL PHENOMENA is not exactly my strength, but it was impossible this week to escape videos of the bottle cap challenge. In these videos, celebrities set a [Continue]

PETERS – Province’s mental health strategy ignores seniors

June 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

MEDICAL SCIENCE HAS DONE WONDERS to keep us alive longer. As of 2011, Canadian life expectancy was 81.7 years. That means in less than a century, life expectancy increased by [Continue]

PETERS – Safe return home of missing man gives us reason to keep hoping

June 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

IF NEWS IS SUPPOSED TO BE stories that are unexpected or out of the ordinary, then the biggest news story of the week wasn’t the approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline [Continue]

PETERS – Elected officials can’t separate their private and public personas online

June 15, 2019 // 1 Comment

PEOPLE CURSE OTHERS OUT and resort to abuse on social media. That’s no surprise.When it’s a city councillor doing the cussing, though, it’s worth some scrutiny.Kamloops [Continue]

PETERS – Near-miss video reminds us how close we come to disaster daily

June 8, 2019 // 3 Comments

A CLOSE CALL VIDEO posted to YouTube this week has thousands of people appreciating the value of dashcams. The video shows a car turning left from Highway 97 onto Highway 99, [Continue]

PETERS – Raptors fandom holds a mirror to how we feel about Canada

June 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

THE TORONTO RAPTORS kicked off their first appearance in the NBA Finals the right way Thursday, beating the favoured Golden State Warriors comfortably. There’s a decent [Continue]

PETERS – On abortion and women’s health, listen to women, not me

May 25, 2019 // 1 Comment

I DON’T WRITE AND SPEAK very often from a first person point of view, because I’d rather not bring myself into most of the topics I discuss. It’s my opinion that I’m [Continue]