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POLICE – Barricading incident puts 500 block Columbia Street off limits

August 2, 2018 // 0 Comments

UPDATE, 4:04 p.m. from Cpl. Jodie Shelkie: This afternoon at 2:45 p.m. the man who had barricaded himself inside of the Denny’s restaurant was arrested by the Southeast [Continue]

BEPPLE – Be careful British Columbia, Alberta is coming on strong

August 1, 2018 // 10 Comments

AS CHANCE WOULD have it, I went on a road trip for work to Alberta a couple weeks back. I mainly went to smaller places: Jasper, Grande Cache, Grande Prairie, Slave Lake [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Made-in-Kamloops solution needed for public washrooms

August 1, 2018 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WE NEED TO RETHINK public washrooms. First of all, there aren’t enough of them. If Nature calls when you’re shopping downtown or on the [Continue]

SUZUKI – Reconciling energy and Indigenous rights

August 1, 2018 // 1 Comment

IN 2007, CANADA WAS one of four countries to vote against the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (with New Zealand, the United States and Australia). With its [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Ontario Premier Doug Ford and the weaponization of politics

July 31, 2018 // 1 Comment

“REVENGE IS A DISH best served cold.” No one is certain who first said these words but in the case of Premier Doug Ford of Ontario, it could be rewritten to say something [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Mandatory seatbelts for all buses are long overdue

July 31, 2018 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ALL NEWLY BUILT highway buses will be required to have seatbelts starting in September of 2020. When a school bus carrying the Humboldt [Continue]