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ROTHENBURGER: He barely escaped Lytton inferno, but what’s next?

August 28, 2021 // 0 Comments

ONE OF THE LAST TWO PEOPLE out of Lytton when wildfire destroyed the town June 30 didn’t think he was going to make it. Now, he lives in a motor inn in Abbotsford anxiously [Continue]

PETERS – On the RIH nurse shortage, Interior Health is lying in bed it made

August 28, 2021 // 1 Comment

NURSES AND SUPPORT STAFF at Royal Inland Hospital — the ones who are left — are scared. They’re scared they are going to get COVID-19 — and they might. They’re [Continue]

NATIONAL PULSE – In week two, Erin O’Toole is voters’ intellectual favourite

August 26, 2021 // 1 Comment

By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE August 26, 2021 – In an election that may be decided by small segments of moveable voters migrating between parties, leadership matters. A new study [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – How do you feel after starting a disastrous wildfire?

August 26, 2021 // 1 Comment

PEOPLE START MOST wildfires, according to BC Wildfire Service. Few admit it. They must feel awful. Their carelessness caused people to flee for their lives. Livestock and [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – ‘Vaccine card’ inconvenient but will save the economy

August 25, 2021 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I WONDER IF those folks who are hollering indignantly about B.C.’s new vaccination card ever stop to think about the alternative. Refuse [Continue]

BEPPLE – Expect big Kamloops tax increase to pay for rising policing costs

August 25, 2021 // 1 Comment

THE PRELIMINARY FIGURES for the 2022 City of Kamloops budget haven’t yet come to council, but I’m predicting a large tax increase to offset the increased cost of [Continue]