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MEDIA – Rising costs cited as cause of Kamloops This Week’s demise

October 17, 2023 // 4 Comments

Kamloops will be without a newspaper as of next Wednesday, Oct. 25. That’s when Kamloops This Week will publish its last edition. Announcement of the closure was made today [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Short-term rentals bill won’t fix housing but it will help

October 17, 2023 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE HOUSING SHORTAGE will become a little less serious after the provincial government introduced new legislation on short-term rentals [Continue]

LETTER – Nicola Valley Hospital is not what it used to be

October 17, 2023 // 2 Comments

Re: EDITORIAL – Withholding local taxes for ER closures might get something done Dear Mr. Rothenburger, My name is Robert (Bob) Holmes and I have lived in the Nicola [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Withholding local taxes for ER closures might get something done

October 16, 2023 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. RURAL LIVING has many advantages but easy access to health care isn’t one of them. By rural living, I include smaller communities such as [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: If you liked council’s first year, just imagine the next three

October 14, 2023 // 3 Comments

BELIEVE IT OR NOT, it’s been a year since the civic election. On Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022, voters went to the polls and made their choices for who would run Kamloops for the [Continue]

PETERS – No end in sight to the horrific cycle of killing in the Middle East

October 14, 2023 // 1 Comment

BACK IN MY UNIVERSITY YEARS, I had a professor who had returned to teach in Canada after spending years in Israel and the West Bank, working for a relief organization. I [Continue]