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EDITORIAL: City council blew it by springing Riverside Park plan on public

May 19, 2021 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. PUBLIC CONSULTATION is a great aspiration for public bodies but Kamloops City council failed the test yesterday on the issue of [Continue]

BEPPLE – Canada’s reputation as peacekeeper is on the decline

May 19, 2021 // 3 Comments

IN RECENT YEARS, Canada has fallen from grace as an international peacemaker. While we think of ourselves as the country of Lester B. Pearson and the UN Peacekeepers, in [Continue]

FORSETH – Kevin Falcon will make it three in slim field for BC Libs’ leadership

May 17, 2021 // 1 Comment

UPDATE: As predicted by Alan Forseth in this column, Kevin Falcon did, indeed, announce his candidacy last night (May 18, 2021) for the leadership of the BC Liberals. TONIGHT [Continue]

SNOWBIRDS CRASH – ‘Artist tribute’ to Capt. Jenn Casey planned at airport

May 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

An “artist tribute memorial” will be created in honour of Capt. Jenn Casey, the Snowbirds public information officer killed in the crash of a Tudor jet at Kamloops [Continue]

NATIONAL PULSE – Most who’ve received AstraZeneca have no regrets

May 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

By ANGUS REIG INSTITUTE May 17, 2021 – As the rate of Canadians who have been vaccinated with at least one-dose of a COVID-19 vaccine surges to more than fifty per cent of [Continue]

GINTA – Our city parks deserve better than to be commercialized

May 17, 2021 // 7 Comments

IT WAS ALMOST a decade ago while contemplating a move to Kamloops that my sons and I first visited Riverside Park. They splashed and splattered at the waterpark and we had a [Continue]