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NATIONAL PULSE – B.C. govt faces growing criticism over key issues

June 29, 2023 // 0 Comments

By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE June 29, 2023 – While government dissatisfaction has become a familiar trend in Ontario in recent years, the ranks of those disenchanted with the [Continue]

EDITORIAL – How Coun. Karpuk blew it on the Fartgate file

June 29, 2023 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. DID YOU HEAR THE ONE about the City councillor who accused the mayor of telling a fart joke at a dinner event? Turns out the councillor blew [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Who owns the issue of public safety in Kamloops?

June 29, 2023 // 3 Comments

I WENT TO A FORUM at TRU last Wednesday (June 21) expecting to hear a discussion on public safety in Kamloops. Instead, I was faced with a denunciation of federal and B.C. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Byelection results say very little about state of B.C. politics

June 28, 2023 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. LET’S TAKE A BREAK from the usual petty, sourpuss politics at City Hall — which carried on unabated yesterday — and take a look at the [Continue]

CITY COUNCIL – Councillor apologizes to mayor over erroneous fart-joke claim

June 28, 2023 // 5 Comments

“I made a mistake; it was a big one.” Those are the words of Coun. Steven Karpuk today (Wed. June 28, 2023) as he apologized for incorrectly insisting, in yesterday’s [Continue]

LETTER – Crackdown needed on incompetent, untrained semi drivers

June 28, 2023 // 3 Comments

Dear Mr. Rothenburger; I am a professional driver, a charter bus driver with TRAXX. I would like to comment on the problems with commercial Semi trucks that drive our [Continue]