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IN THE HOUSE – ‘Do you know the names of these people, yes or no?’

June 16, 2024 // 1 Comment

Excerpts from Public Safety Committee meeting of June 6, 2024: Frank Caputo (Conservative), Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo, BC Thank you. I appreciate all of the witnesses for [Continue]

EDITORIAL – What’s going on with plans for the performing arts centre?

June 13, 2024 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IF KAMLOOPS WANTS a new performing arts centre, its proponents had better straighten out their public information campaign. Currently, [Continue]

CITY HALL – Mayor banned from closed committee meetings in latest sanction

June 13, 2024 // 7 Comments

Another sanction has been imposed on Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson by members of his council and, once again, no details provided of what may have led to it. In a news release [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Kamloops’ rating of high wildfire risk is doubtful

June 13, 2024 // 0 Comments

WHY WOULD a small Toronto-based insurance broker release arcane data that shows Kamloops to be at highest risk of wildfires — in all of Canada? BC Wildfire Service fire [Continue]

CITY HALL – Mayor’s pay docked 10 per cent for ‘misleading communications’

June 12, 2024 // 17 Comments

Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson will have his pay docked 10 per cent effective today (Wednesday, June 12, 2024), according to a City news release. The news release, issued without a [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Mayor RHJ must stop squandering his term in office

June 11, 2024 // 7 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. MAYOR REID HAMER-JACKSON simply must let it go. For the third time, during his mayor’s report on the agenda of a regular council meeting, [Continue]