Peters

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]