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IN THE SHADOW OF THE HILLS – Navigating challenges in Kamloops

March 1, 2025 // 3 Comments

By Dr. PANAGIOTIS (Peter) TSIGARIS Thompson Rivers University THIS EDITORIAL is to introduce to the readers a book I wrote with my senior undergraduate students entitled In [Continue]

EDITORIAL – It’s Zelensky, not Donald Trump, who should be thanked

February 28, 2025 // 7 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE OVAL OFFICE shouting match today (Feb. 28, 2025) must surely go down in history as the most embarrassing failure in U.S. diplomacy ever. [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – It was a dark and stormy night at the video mart

February 28, 2025 // 2 Comments

In the days before live-streaming TV, people fought over the best movies at the video rental store, or subscribed to “cable,” or bought huge satellite TV dishes that [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Tory support has been shaken by Trumpquake

February 27, 2025 // 4 Comments

CONSERVATIVES FELT the ground shift beneath their feet with the election of Trump and the resignation of Trudeau. Support for the federal Conservatives has been in freefall [Continue]

EDITORIAL – AAP was legal but that doesn’t mean it was best

February 25, 2025 // 8 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE ALTERNATIVE APPROVAL process that was used to get approval for $275 million worth of civic projects, including a new performing arts [Continue]

EDITORIAL – TNRD board demonstrates restraint with its annual pay increase

February 24, 2025 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE FOLKS WHO SIT AROUND the Thompson-Nicola Regional District board table have done an unusual thing. They voted to give themselves only a [Continue]