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NATIONAL PULSE – Carney begins term with 57 per cent approval rating

June 5, 2025 // 1 Comment

By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE June 5, 2025 – The optimism coming out of meetings between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canada’s provincial premiers was quickly dampened by [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Proposed Tk’emlúps biomass fuel refinery gets Trump bump

June 5, 2025 // 2 Comments

PRESIDENT TRUMP has, perhaps advertently, given a break to North American biomass fuel producers. In his war on sanity, Trump is not known to help former friends. Trump’s [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Save the ostriches, if it’s based on science, not emotion

June 3, 2025 // 1 Comment

IT’S NOT EASY being an ostrich. In the wild, they have to contend with lions, leopards, hyenas and human hunters. In captivity, on farms, they’re usually shipped to the [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – A ray of sunshine from the land of rainbows

May 31, 2025 // 0 Comments

Ideas come and go for projects that would bring tourism to Kamloops and the region. Most never get off the ground but the point is, we keep thinking them up. I’ll bet you [Continue]

JOHNSON – Is City council about to jump into another boondoggle?

May 31, 2025 // 7 Comments

NOTE: This is the second part of a two-part column on City council boondoggles. THIS TIME we are talking about the planned Summit Connector TRU pedestrian overpass bridge and [Continue]

FORSETH – B.C.’s Conservatives are NOT out of touch with British Columbians

May 30, 2025 // 0 Comments

I HAVE TO LAUGH at the emails I receive from the BC NDP. There’s never a time they don’t outright trash the BC Conservative Party but, hey, all parties do it, right? [Continue]