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CHARBONNEAU – Good memorials, bad memorials of residential schools

September 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

FIRST NATIONS SHOW THE WAY to reconciliation. Protestors with other agendas should pay heed. In a transformative move, Indigenous Canadians have designated the residential [Continue]

EDITORIAL – This first day of school is a nail-biter like no other

September 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL is always a combination of excitement, anticipation and nervousness. Today and tomorrow, the emphasis is on [Continue]

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]