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EDITORIAL – Transit drivers need more protection from violent passengers

September 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A MAN WHO ASSAULTED a Kamloops bus driver last April has been given a conditional discharge and put on probation for nine months. The driver [Continue]

BEPPLE – Our kids will be in good hands as they return to school during COVID

September 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

I REMEMBER one of my very first days of kindergarten as if it were yesterday. There I was, a tiny five-year-old, walking up the steps of the school. But before I could [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Protest at Trans Mountain work site was uneventful theatre

September 8, 2020 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. BY ALL ACCOUNTS, an anti-pipeline protest at the Kamloops airport last week went exactly the way it should. A protester chained herself to [Continue]

ISSUES – The past isn’t a script that we set down in non-revisable stone

September 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

Vandalizing public spaces under the delusion that such acts make yesterday a better today is sad-sack politics that fosters democratic weakness FOR HER BOOK Talking Stones: [Continue]

McQUARRIE – We’ll need more pizzerias if we get serious about conspiracies

September 6, 2020 // 1 Comment

IT STARTED WITH what until recently was a fringe group; a group that inhabited that questionable and murky online world that often seems unable to distinguish reality from [Continue]

KNOX – Are the wheels falling off the work-from-home bus?

September 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT’S THE LABOUR DAY WEEKEND. Labour as in time to go back to work — which, for many people these days means popping open a laptop on the kitchen counter. If there has [Continue]