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AJAX – B.C. ministers decide not to issue permit for open-pit mine proposal

December 14, 2017 // 9 Comments

Full press release issued today (Dec. 14, 2017) by B.C. ministers on Ajax application: Environment and Climate Change Strategy Minister George Heyman and Energy, Mines and [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Climate-change denial is not about science

December 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

THE MINDS of climate-change deniers won’t be changed with scientific facts. For them, the real issue isn’t science. There’s a temptation to think that if all the facts [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Consumption of cannabis should match drinking laws

December 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON Guest Columnist PREMIER JOHN HORGAN says marijuana users in British Columbia could face the same rules as those who smoke tobacco in public. Horgan says his [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Pedestrians, drivers, cyclists duke it out on the streets

December 14, 2017 // 3 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THIS IS FOR the guy who almost ran me over with his bicycle. I was standing at an intersection waiting for the crosswalk [Continue]

EDITORIAL – 11th-Hour Award goes to KCBIA for nick-of-time parking reprieve

December 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I WANT TO congratulate the Kamloops Central Business Improvement Association for discovering, four years after it was [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Proposed new business fines could spell trouble in River City

December 12, 2017 // 1 Comment

WHILE I WATCHED last week’s City Council meeting, I couldn’t help but think of the Broadway play, Music Man. A story about the arrival of a pool table in conservative [Continue]