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PRIVACY – Taking on the challenge of protecting personal information

February 23, 2018 // 0 Comments

The following is the transcript from a presentation by Drew McArthur, acting information and privacy commissioner, to the 4th annual Privacy and Security Conference at [Continue]

GARBAGE – China’s ban on foreign garbage reveals recycling’s weakness

February 23, 2018 // 4 Comments

Recycling seems like a neat solution until we can’t dump our garbage on another country and have to deal with it ourselves By LEE HARDING Policy Analyst Frontier Centre [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Spirit Square project will turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse

February 23, 2018 // 4 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SOMETIMES the City of Kamloops gets it right and I think the new plan for Spirit Square is one of those times. Arpa [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Canadian beavers weren’t always such hard workers

February 23, 2018 // 0 Comments

THE BEAVER exemplifies what it means to be Canadian. Rachel Poliquin puts it this way: “Humpbacked and portly, with an earnest and honest charm, beavers epitomize the [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – ‘Why I’ve been walking around with both hands in my pockets’

February 22, 2018 // 1 Comment

Excerpt from a speech by Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Peter Milobar in the Legislature during debate on the B.C. budget, Feb. 22, 2018: P. Milobar: … Now, over the last [Continue]

MISSING – Two Kelowna residents headed for Kamloops but never arrived

February 22, 2018 // 1 Comment

Kelowna RCMP are requesting the public’s assistance in locating two missing travellers. Maureen Tallio and Johnny Philbrick were last seen together Wednesday (Feb. 21, [Continue]