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GUEST COLUMN – Surviving on the street in limbo from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

May 31, 2023 // 5 Comments

By LYNNE STONIER-NEWMAN Guest Columnist Lynne Stonier-Newman here, sharing the realities of three people I met last Wednesday. I’d nervously rolled into Gaglardi park [Continue]

EDITORIAL – City council’s dysfunction just keeps getting nastier and meaner

May 31, 2023 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. BY THE TIME Kamloops City council struggled through its latest and longest sad attempt to do the public’s business Tuesday, the world had [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Commercialization of Riverside Park is nothing to fear

May 30, 2023 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. RIVERSIDE PARK was once a place for quiet solitude, of walking among the big trees, relaxing on the grass, maybe going for a swim at the [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Indigenous veterans memorial sends reassuring message

May 29, 2023 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ANYONE TEMPTED to accept the stereotype of indigenous peoples always asking for more from Canada should have been at a ceremony in the Lower [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Anatomy of how council formed a ‘unified team’ against the mayor

May 27, 2023 // 2 Comments

‘PUSHY REPORTERS” and showing a united front against Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson were priority concerns of City councillors in the early hours of the now-months long [Continue]

POLICE – Woman who was shot in Valhalla Drive home dies of her injuries

May 26, 2023 // 0 Comments

The woman who was on life support after a shooting at a home on Valhalla Drive last weekend has died in hospital. Her identity still hasn’t been released and the only [Continue]