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PETERS – Vaccine debate: Irresistible force versus the immovable object

October 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

MY FAVOURITE STORY OF THE WEEK was the one about Sadie, the sales-Husky. If you didn’t see it, the online story was about a wonderful, weird-looking dog who photobombs her [Continue]

PETERS – Instead of honouring Indigenous children, the PM flew by

October 2, 2021 // 3 Comments

MAYBE YOU DIDN’T AND DON’T want Justin Trudeau to come to Kamloops. That’s fair. There are plenty of reasons residents would want him to stay away. But the Tk’emlups [Continue]

PETERS – TRU, City of Kamloops, students all look bad in housing flap

September 25, 2021 // 1 Comment

NO ONE REALLY LOOKS GOOD in the mess with Thompson Rivers University student housing right now — not TRU and not the City of Kamloops. TRU was surprised by the number of [Continue]

PETERS – Alberta is a case study on consequences of dropping restrictions

September 18, 2021 // 1 Comment

ALBERTANS WHO ARE NOT GASPING FOR BREATH in a hospital ICU are likely gasping in shock and horror at what is happening in their province right now. Consider for a moment, if [Continue]

PETERS – Federal parties wasted another opportunity on reconciliation

September 11, 2021 // 0 Comments

IN LATE MAY, when the terrible discovery of children’s bodies on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School was made known, it cast reconciliation with [Continue]

PETERS – RIH demonstrators lost sight of how COVID-19 impacts health care

September 4, 2021 // 3 Comments

THE RECENT EXPERIENCE a friend of mine had at Royal Inland Hospital illustrates well why healthcare professionals were so frustrated at this week’s protest. Coincidentally, [Continue]

PETERS – On the RIH nurse shortage, Interior Health is lying in bed it made

August 28, 2021 // 1 Comment

NURSES AND SUPPORT STAFF at Royal Inland Hospital — the ones who are left — are scared. They’re scared they are going to get COVID-19 — and they might. They’re [Continue]

PETERS – It’s time to strike up the band again in Kamloops

August 14, 2021 // 1 Comment

THE MOST STRINGENT COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted and we’re beginning to do things in large groups again. It’s not to everyone’s comfort, but we’re starting [Continue]

PETERS – Are we finally ready to agree on climate change?

August 7, 2021 // 1 Comment

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc revelation of unmarked graves near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School site has been said before. It’s not that [Continue]

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]