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PASSINGS: Respects paid to John DeCicco and John Gnitt by Kamloops MP

January 30, 2024 // 0 Comments

Two prominent Kamloops residents who have recently passed away were praised on Monday (Jan. 29, 2024) in Ottawa by Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Frank Caputo. During [Continue]

THE ARTS – University kills four visual arts programs to save ‘public dollars’

January 29, 2024 // 8 Comments

Four TRU visual arts degrees and diplomas have been terminated after a special meeting of the university’s board of governors today (Monday, Jan. 29, 2024). The board [Continue]

POLITICS – Kamloops group pushes Caputo to support Citizens Assembly

January 29, 2024 // 2 Comments

A local lobby group wants Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Frank Caputo to support a bill calling for another National Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform. Motion [Continue]

ANIMAL RIGHTS – ‘Ag gag’ laws on farm animal treatment topic for TRU lecture

January 29, 2024 // 0 Comments

Thompson Rivers University’s (TRU) first Inaugural Professorial Lecture of 2024 will feature a conversation on agricultural gag laws, or ag gag laws, that criminalize and [Continue]

BOOKS – Important reading for International Holocaust Remembrance

January 27, 2024 // 3 Comments

THE BETRAYAL OF ANNE FRANK – A COLD CASE INVESTIGATION By Rosemary Sullivan Harper Collins 2022, 393 pp By MEL ROTHENBURGER ArmchairMayor.ca This is International Holocaust [Continue]

CULTURE – Lunar New Year celebration at Kamloops Museum and Archives

January 25, 2024 // 0 Comments

Residents are being invited to join the Kamloops Museum and Archives, the Kamloops Chinese Cultural Association, and the Kamloops Chinese Freemasons to celebrate the Lunar [Continue]