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COLLINS – It only took 16 years to get it right on windshield repairs

February 13, 2017 // 1 Comment

IN 2001, ICBC abandoned the idea of fixing windshield chips before they got too big and the entire windshield had to be replaced. Sixteen years later, Transportation Minister [Continue]

GINTA – Where to from here or why changing our ways can spare some of the trouble ahead

February 13, 2017 // 3 Comments

AGAIN, A WEEK of many happenings. Like many of you who heard the story of the Kamloops couple who stopped to offer their help at an accident scene on the Coquihalla and were [Continue]

KNOX – Family Day? We barely have enough people for families

February 12, 2017 // 1 Comment

EVEN AFTER four years, it’s hard to get used to B.C.’s new(ish) Family Day. Not complaining, mind you. I’ll cheer whatever family you want — Corleone, Kardashian, [Continue]

PETERS – A possible solution to the spring break conundrum

February 11, 2017 // 1 Comment

THE SPRING BREAK debate in the Kamloops-Thompson school district is one of pure self-interest on the part of everyone involved. The district has vacillated between a two-week [Continue]

POLITICS – Tragedy of the MS St. Louis provides lesson on immigration

February 11, 2017 // 1 Comment

PRINCE GEORGE – History too often repeats itself, to the detriment of us all. In the months before the start of the Second World War, more than 900 Jews boarded the MS St. [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Is community willing to invest in a new use for Stuart Wood School?

February 11, 2017 // 1 Comment

STUART WOOD School is a good place for a museum. It would have been a good place for other things, too, but a museum is within the community’s reach when it comes to public [Continue]