Peters

PETERS – Intentions were laudable, execution was lacking at The Loop

July 24, 2021 // 0 Comments

THERE IS MUCH TO BE LAUDED about what Glenn Hilke has done with The Loop, a pop-up non-profit agency that provided services for the people the rest of society has the most [Continue]

PETERS – B.C. State of Emergency needed for practical, symbolic reasons

July 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

IT MIGHT BE STUBBORNNESS, it might be ignorance, or it might be embarrassment that is preventing politicians from declaring a provincial State of Emergency in B.C., [Continue]

PETERS – In the midst of its grief, Tk’emlups community exemplifies compassion

July 10, 2021 // 1 Comment

IT’S TIME WE SIT BACK AND CONTEMPLATE the marvel that is the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc community. Like most Indigenous communities where a residential school operated in the [Continue]

PETERS – Here’s what we should build into our new normal post-pandemic

June 26, 2021 // 0 Comments

THE PHRASE ‘NEW NORMAL’ has become so overused to become cliched, but there are several practices we have learned during this COVID-19 pandemic that should become our new [Continue]

PETERS – Midway through the vaccine rollout, NACI’s curveball was not helpful

June 19, 2021 // 0 Comments

IS ASTRAZENECA REALLY a second-rate vaccine? The latest messaging from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) would certainly have you believe that. For [Continue]

PETERS – Statues, reconciliation and Canada Day 2021

June 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

WE’VE SAID BEFORE that societies don’t erect statues of people they want to simply remember; they erect statues of people they want to celebrate, to venerate, to hold up [Continue]

PETERS – For the future of Canada, we must overcome our fear of change

June 5, 2021 // 1 Comment

A FEW WEEKS AGO, our newsroom took a phone call from a gentleman who was hopping mad. The object of his ire? The Real Canadian Superstore. The man was complaining that [Continue]

PETERS – We call them survivors

May 29, 2021 // 0 Comments

WE CALL THEM SURVIVORS. Indigenous people who attended the schools in Canada’s residential school system are not called ‘former students’ or ‘attendees’ or [Continue]

PETERS – Park debate shows elections better than one-off consultations

May 22, 2021 // 0 Comments

YOU KNOW HOW EVERY TIME AN ELECTION APPROACHES, there are impassioned pleas for people to get out and vote? It’s often a case of too little, too late. Unless a potential [Continue]

PETERS – Minos’ proclamation drew a line in the sand — and most customers are on the other side

May 15, 2021 // 1 Comment

IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING that the life of a restaurant owner is not a lot of laughs right now — but for anyone who owns a Kamloops Greek restaurant not named Minos, life just [Continue]

PETERS – For the Snowbirds, returning to Kamloops was a tough manoeuvre

May 8, 2021 // 0 Comments

FOR MOST OF US, Kamloops envelopes our entire life. The mention of the city’s name evokes thoughts of family, thoughts of work and memories of a place that, for better or [Continue]

PETERS – Flawed parole system means Shearing still holds all the power over the family of his victims

May 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

YOU CAN SAY DAVID SHEARING SHOULD BE PUT TO DEATH, but that’s just not going to happen. You can say he should remain in prison forever, but according to the sentence he was [Continue]

PETERS – Naked MP distracts from Trudeau’s failures on vaccines, opioids

April 19, 2021 // 0 Comments

WHEN A LIBERAL MP appeared completely stark naked in a virtual parliament session last week, it was maybe the least embarrassing happening of the week for Canada’s [Continue]

PETERS – Let’s just admit it – we’re all thoroughly sick of each other

April 10, 2021 // 1 Comment

WE’RE ALL SICK OF EACH OTHER. I think it’s okay to admit that. Not only has this pandemic made us distrust each other, it’s made us lose our patience with each other. [Continue]