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NATIONAL PULSE – Most view our vaccine rollout a ‘failure’ by comparison

February 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE February 12, 2021 – Be it prosperity, human rights, education or international aid, Canadians have been more often used to seeing their nation as a [Continue]

STONE – B.C.’s economic recovery must be led by private sector jobs

February 12, 2021 // 2 Comments

By TODD STONE MLA, Kamloops-South Thompson IT’S NO SECRET that B.C.’s economy is reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest figures from Statistics Canada show [Continue]

JOHNSON – Sooo… are we headed to the polls? Some clues from the past

February 11, 2021 // 1 Comment

By DAVID JOHNSON PEOPLE ARE WONDERING about a potential federal election call, that could come sooner than the Oct. 16, 2023 preordained date. Any chance they can get, [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Skip the Dishes’ ‘B.C. fee’ more of an annoyance than deterrence

February 11, 2021 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I LIKE THOSE SKIP THE DISHES television commercials in which Jon Hamm of Mad Men fame plays a slightly over-the-hill actor discovering the [Continue]

POLICE – Mismatched plates on vehicle lead to seizure of drugs and cash

February 10, 2021 // 0 Comments

A vehicle with mismatched plates led to Kamloops RCMP officers executing a warrant and seizing thousands of dollars in cash and drugs Tuesday (Feb. 9, 2021). Members of the [Continue]

BEPPLE – Kamloops needs another, more central, long-term care home

February 10, 2021 // 7 Comments

IT MAY BE FORGOTTEN by many that in 2020 the B.C. provincial government announced an expansion of almost 500 more extended care beds across the province. Of these, 100 beds [Continue]