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TRAVIS – Time to dial down the rhetoric in B.C.’s referendum campaign

November 1, 2018 // 0 Comments

HAVING SURVIVED two referendums in Quebec – the 1992 Charlottetown Accord and the 1995 referendum on independence – I feel I might have a few experiences to share and [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Canada’s Roma have a rich history, including in Kamloops

November 1, 2018 // 0 Comments

THE ROMANI PEOPLE of Canada have been met with both fascination and suspicion. For more than a century, Canadians have been fascinated by the colourful bands of “Gypsies” [Continue]

EDITORIAL – We could stop the annual deer slaughter if we wanted to

November 1, 2018 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE ANNUAL DEER SLAUGHTER is underway. I don’t mean the guns of autumn. I’m talking about the carnage on our rural roads. This is a [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Why should flying a flag at City Hall need to involve lawyers?

October 31, 2018 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WHAT SAD TIMES we live in when flying flags and hanging banners becomes a Charter of Rights and Freedoms issue. Without a word of [Continue]

BEPPLE – Just like any other Kamloops City council meeting – well, not quite

October 31, 2018 // 2 Comments

THIRTY-ONE YEARS IS a long time for anyone to keep the same job. Thirty-one years is an amazingly long time to be an elected local politician. To have the faith and [Continue]

POLICE – It wasn’t the blue car that struck victim in fatal hit-and-run

October 30, 2018 // 0 Comments

First it was a Dodge Neon, then it was a “cobalt blue” car, and now it isn’t. Kamloops RCMP said today (Oct. 30, 2018) they “are learning more” [Continue]