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FORSETH – Kevin Falcon will make it three in slim field for BC Libs’ leadership

May 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

TONIGHT AT 7 p.m., British Columbians can expect to hear Kevin Falcon declare himself a candidate for the leadership of the BC Liberal Party. He will enter a field that few [Continue]

SNOWBIRDS CRASH – ‘Artist tribute’ to Capt. Jenn Casey planned at airport

May 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

An “artist tribute memorial” will be created in honour of Capt. Jenn Casey, the Snowbirds public information officer killed in the crash of a Tudor jet at Kamloops [Continue]

NATIONAL PULSE – Most who’ve received AstraZeneca have no regrets

May 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

By ANGUS REIG INSTITUTE May 17, 2021 – As the rate of Canadians who have been vaccinated with at least one-dose of a COVID-19 vaccine surges to more than fifty per cent of [Continue]

GINTA – Our city parks deserve better than to be commercialized

May 17, 2021 // 3 Comments

IT WAS ALMOST a decade ago while contemplating a move to Kamloops that my sons and I first visited Riverside Park. They splashed and splattered at the waterpark and we had a [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Remembering Capt. Jenn Casey one year after Snowbirds tragedy

May 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

NOTE: Today, May 17, 2021 is the one-year anniversary of the Snowbirds’ crash in Kamloops and the tragic death of Capt. Jenn Casey. The following column was originally [Continue]

KNOX – Don’t mow your lawn in May, help save the planet

May 16, 2021 // 4 Comments

GOOD NEWS: I thought I was lazy, but it turns out I’m an environmental superhero. Suzuki should wear my picture on a T-shirt. What I refer to is my inadvertent adherence to [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – ‘They really must do something’ about crime but what, and who’s ‘they’?

May 15, 2021 // 1 Comment

THEY REALLY MUST DO SOMETHING. That’s what we usually say when we’re frustrated about the way things are going but have no answers to offer. When we don’t even know who [Continue]

PETERS – Minos’ proclamation drew a line in the sand — and most customers are on the other side

May 15, 2021 // 1 Comment

IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING that the life of a restaurant owner is not a lot of laughs right now — but for anyone who owns a Kamloops Greek restaurant not named Minos, life just [Continue]

POLICE – Investigators ‘working around the clock’ on deaths of two brothers

May 14, 2021 // 1 Comment

Police say they are working “around the clock” on the case of two Kamloops brothers found dead this week near Naramata. A forensic autopsy is scheduled for today (Friday, [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Languishing: the malaise of our pandemic times

May 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

OUR JOURNEY through this pandemic is unprecedented in modern times. We won’t know what the exact effects of the pandemic will be until it’s over. Meanwhile, [Continue]

LETTER – Kamloops in a state of siege: ‘We own these streets so F-off’

May 13, 2021 // 9 Comments

Mayor Ken Christian Superintendent Syd Lecky, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Re: Community Criminality and Lack of Accountability. “We Own These Streets so F-off” This is [Continue]

BEPPLE – Police words like ‘targeted’ are scant comfort when bullets are flying

May 12, 2021 // 2 Comments

IN RECENT WEEKS, there has been a rash of brazen killings in the Lower Mainland. Again and again, people are being gunned down and killed, often in very public places, in [Continue]

POLICE – One man in custody after ERT called to Wood Street ‘incident’

May 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

One person was arrested after a heavy police presence in the area of Wood Street and Hilltop Avenue today (May 12, 2021). Just after 10:15 a.m., the Kamloops RCMP [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Fast-food workers need our understanding during COVID

May 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS are tough places to work these days. One would think we’d have worked out our angst over mask wearing by now. Yet incidents of confrontation occur [Continue]