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April 8, 2020 in Environment // SUZUKI – Review shows ocean life could rebound within 30 years
April 8, 2020 in Local Voices // MEHTA – Next-generation solar panels boost efficiency but may carry toxic risks
April 8, 2020 in Other Voices // HENRY – An explanation of why COVID19 communities are not named
April 8, 2020 in Bepple // BEPPLE – Kamloops economy will have to re-invent itself after COVID-19
April 8, 2020 in Editorials // EDITORIAL – Democracy by videoconference – ‘Can you hear me now?’

Peters

PETERS – Rendering scrutiny on our public health officer is a tricky game

April 4, 2020 // 1 Comment

OUR PROVINCE’S CHIEF HEALTH OFFICER, Dr. Bonnie Henry, is open to scrutiny and critique just like any public official. You wouldn’t think that’s the case by all the [Continue]

PETERS – The numbers don’t matter anymore

March 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

THE PACE OF THE COVID-19 story’s scope and evolution has been unprecedented in the news business. Everything changes, every day. And so, it is a little less surprising that [Continue]

PETERS – So, you’ve put yourself into self-isolation. Now what?

March 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

THE SCOURGE OF COVID-19 is now one that has had a direct impact on the lives of absolutely everyone. How often can you say that? While there are some people who are [Continue]

PETERS – 4,000 overdose deaths more than enough to prompt drastic action

March 6, 2020 // 1 Comment

IT’S ONE OF THE IRONIES of our society that one person’s death can trigger a swell of emotion, but 4,000 deaths don’t cause a ripple. B.C. just officially surpassed [Continue]

PETERS – Every four years, the calendar gives us the gift of more time

February 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

I WAS TEXTING WITH MY UNCLE this week, wishing him a happy 70th birthday. At the same time, we were lamenting the passage of time. My children will both be in double-digits [Continue]

PETERS – When we were great

February 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

THREE MEMORIAL CUPS IN FOUR YEARS will never be accomplished again. In fact, it was entirely unlikely that it could happen even once. There are 60 teams from across Canada [Continue]

PETERS – This land is their land

February 15, 2020 // 2 Comments

AS I HAVE READ about the dispute over Wet’suwet’en land and the Coastal GasLink pipeline, I have had quite a hard time coming to some conclusions in my own mind. As one [Continue]

PETERS – Some grace is in order for Carson Hadwin

February 8, 2020 // 1 Comment

IT HAS BEEN BOTH SAD AND FASCINATING to see people contort themselves into different pretzels, trying to find the most cynical angle to this week’s story of a boy getting [Continue]

PETERS – Cities, like individuals, can support both sports and the arts

February 1, 2020 // 1 Comment

IT WAS INEVITABLE THAT, as the arts centre debate heats up in Kamloops, the comparison to sports facilities is made. We are the Tournament Capital of Canada, after all, so we [Continue]

PETERS – Needle cleanup is still more complicated than it needs to be

January 25, 2020 // 1 Comment

KARI RUBEL DIDN’T KNOW WHO TO CALL. The program director for People in Motion had just found a bunch of used needles in front of the agency’s office on Tranquille Road. [Continue]

PETERS – With Out of the Cold needing space, where are the churches?

January 18, 2020 // 3 Comments

CHURCHES IN KAMLOOPS, as in most communities in B.C., are eligible to be exempt from paying property taxes. In that way, they are in the same category as property belonging [Continue]

PETERS – Trudeau’s beard and muskrats – the importance of the kicker

January 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

FOR MILLENNIA, the action of letting their shaving habits lapse has resulted in men growing beards. It is within that context that a news story about a man growing a beard [Continue]

PETERS – Parkcrest fire report raises a new set of important questions

December 21, 2019 // 2 Comments

HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW about the fire that destroyed Parkcrest Elementary School in September: The fire started in the space between the drop ceiling and the roof, and while [Continue]

PETERS – Will Andrew Scheer be the last social conservative to lead the Tories?

December 14, 2019 // 1 Comment

ANDREW SCHEER’S RESIGNATION this week was a bombshell that even his caucus didn’t expect. If he was going to resign, the logical time would have been sooner after the [Continue]