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HARRISON – Myopic council doesn’t think Kamloops needs heavy industry

October 26, 2016 // 1 Comment

THOSE ON Kamloops Council who think the city can do without heavy industry can put another notch in their belt. It’s unlikely the high municipal tax regime for heavy [Continue]

HARRISON – If councillors were paid on merit, they might owe us money

October 25, 2016 // 5 Comments

AT THER RISK of needlessly dragging old skeletons from the closet, recall the wine and cheese arguments about how hard Kamloops councillors work. It was Donovan Cavers who [Continue]

FORSETH – The NDP’s election plan: spend billions and sprinkle pixie dust

October 24, 2016 // 1 Comment

THE NEXT provincial election in B.C. is just six and a half months away, and what we would expect from the NDP is definitely in their campaign plan. But what’s [Continue]

HARRISON – Can’t pay for daycare? Wait until you can afford kids

October 24, 2016 // 1 Comment

IT’S LIKELY one of the centre pieces for the NDP’s election campaign in B.C., and it’s one the taxpayer cannot afford, and should not have to pay for. It’s the plan [Continue]

KNOX – Re-thinking the role of our RCMP auxiliaries

October 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

IT ALWAYS looked like a bureaucratic overreaction, a solution in search of a problem. When the RCMP yanked its auxiliary officers away from the sharp end of policing this [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Mainstream media ponder an uncertain future

October 22, 2016 // 6 Comments

THE MEDIA attended its own wake this week. At least that’s what it felt like at the 30th annual Webster awards in the Hyatt Regency ballroom in Vancouver. Normally, the [Continue]