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GINTA – Celebrate spring with simple offerings: food, smiles and no judgment

April 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

ON SATURDAY, OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD was speckled with yellow all over: bags of food donations for the Foodbank. To say that the Kamloops community gave generously would be an [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Now is not the time to call for a freeze on the minimum wage

April 21, 2020 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES are never popular with businesses. They insist that higher minimum wages make it tougher for them to make a profit [Continue]

STONE – Rental supplement based on good intentions but is highly flawed

April 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

By TODD STONE MLA, Kamloops-South Thompson WHILE COVID-19 HAS POSED a very serious public health risk, we have also watched it become a considerable threat to people’s [Continue]

EDITORIAL – It’s OK to want more details about killings in Nova Scotia

April 20, 2020 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WE NEED TO KNOW MORE about Gabriel Wortman. Not everyone will feel that way. They’ll say we shouldn’t give so much attention to this man [Continue]

POLICE – Suspect surrenders after undisclosed incident Saturday night

April 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

A 36-year-old Kamloops man is in police custody for unknown reasons after an incident that began at an unknown location on the North Shore on Saturday night (April 18, 2020). [Continue]

KNOX – Roger the marmot awakens to a very different world

April 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

HERE’S IRONY: The loneliest guy in Victoria is emerging from isolation just as the rest of us go in. We speak, of course, of Roger, the marmot, who lives on the grounds [Continue]