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ROTHENBURGER – Frootloops council meets to slash budget before Christmas

December 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

Frootloops council elves settle in for their last meeting before Christmas, oops Holiday Season, fiddling with their Zoom audios and visuals as His Wordship Ken [Continue]

PETERS – After this ‘annus horribilis’, there is reason for optimism about 2021

December 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

THREE-HUNDRED-FIFTY-THREE. We are currently on Day 353 of the Year of our Lord, 2020. For many of us, that means 353 days of misery and grief. Largely thanks to a global [Continue]

LETTER – Training can’t possibly prepare police for tragedies they witness

December 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, on December 5, 2020 at approximately 4:40 p.m., a major and very tragic incident unfolded in the Rotary Park parking lot, situated right outside the RCMP [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – ‘Pandemic support for small businesses is a red-tape disaster’

December 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

Debate between Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone and Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation Minister Ravinder Kahlon during Question Period in the B.C. Legislature on [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Drug prohibition was a mistake but decriminalization not an answer

December 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

HOW MANY MORE PEOPLE HAVE TO DIE because of a half-baked idea from a century ago? It all started at the turn of the 20th century when concoctions of opium were commonly found [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Moratorium on mink farms? No, let’s ban them, period

December 17, 2020 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. HUMANS AREN’T THE ONLY ONES being affected by COVID-19. Several mink have been found to be infected with the disease at a B.C. mink farm [Continue]