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CITY COUNCIL – $100,000 downtown parking study rejected on tie vote

November 7, 2017 // 7 Comments

A $100,000 downtown parking study was rejected by Kamloops City council on the closest of votes Tuesday (Nov. 7, 2017). After more than an hour of debate, the proposed study [Continue]

BY-ELECTION – Poll-by-poll results show where candidates did well, or not

October 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

Poll-by-poll by-election results released by the City of Kamloops confirm that mayor-elect Ken Christian prevailed at every polling station, but the picture is somewhat [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Things we learned from the Kamloops by-election

October 2, 2017 // 2 Comments

An AmrchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SO, WHAT did we learn from the by-election? Well, for one thing, even though the turnout was diaphanously better than most [Continue]

COLLINS – Voter turnout in civic by-election was less than hoped for

October 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

HOPE SPRINGS eternal- except in elections. In the advance voting leading up to Saturday’s byelection, there were hopes that the turnout would be reasonably good, even [Continue]

BY-ELECTION: Christian the new mayor; Sinclair, Dhaliwal in as councillors

September 30, 2017 // 4 Comments

The Kamloops civic by-election for a new mayor and two new councillors was over in about 16 minutes on Saturday evening (Sept. 30, 2017), though it wasn’t official for [Continue]

BY-ELECTION – Leslie Lax: Are core services reviews a cure or a curse?

September 21, 2017 // 2 Comments

Candidates in the Sept. 30 Kamloops civic by-election are invited to make submissions to ArmchairMayor.ca on their platforms, biographical information, contact information or [Continue]