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POLICE – Bullet strikes home in Dallas near elementary school

January 31, 2024 // 1 Comment

The Kamloops RCMP Detachment is looking for witnesses, video, and information related to a report of shots fired received early Monday morning. On Jan. 30, 2024, around 8:15 [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Coroner is wrong; we shouldn’t live with public drug use

January 31, 2024 // 17 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. BC CORONER LISA LAPOINTE effectively though unintentionally articulates pretty much everything that’s wrong with allowing the consumption [Continue]

SUZUKI – Let’s take back the planet and leave fossil fuels in the ground!

January 31, 2024 // 3 Comments

IT’S NOT A STRETCH to say the fossil fuel industry rules the world. From its beginnings, it’s spawned car and consumer culture, plastic proliferation and poisonous [Continue]

FORSETH – Out of 11 ways NDP says it’s helping, eight of them don’t apply

January 30, 2024 // 8 Comments

THIS MORNING I received a note from Premier David Eby and the BC NDP outlining what they said were 11 ways they were helping British Columbians with costs. If you haven’t [Continue]

EDITORIAL – TRU decision to axe visual arts programs fails the community

January 30, 2024 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE, education and the arts are about money. That truth has been confirmed with the decision yesterday (Monday, Jan. 29, [Continue]

THE ARTS – University kills four visual arts programs to save ‘public dollars’

January 29, 2024 // 8 Comments

Four TRU visual arts degrees and diplomas have been terminated after a special meeting of the university’s board of governors today (Monday, Jan. 29, 2024). The board [Continue]