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TRAFFIC – Stage Two of Lansdowne project on schedule for late June

June 18, 2024 // 1 Comment

Beginning June 28, 2024, traffic impacts from stage one of the City Centre Sanitary Upgrades Project will return to normal operations. Stage two of the project will move [Continue]

SUZUKI – Industries in denial: From burning cigarettes to a burning planet

June 18, 2024 // 0 Comments

NOT LONG AGO, smoking was promoted as healthy — even glamourous. Cigarette companies used doctors and movie and TV stars to sell their products. People smoked everywhere [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – A short history of confidentiality at Kamloops City Hall

June 18, 2024 // 7 Comments

SO KAMLOOPS CITY COUNCILLORS have approved a motion to bar Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson from closed meetings of committees based on a claim that he’s proven he can’t be [Continue]

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]