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ROTHENBURGER – Go hard on graffiti vandals, be soft with panhandlers

September 9, 2017 // 8 Comments

WHEN WE’RE making laws, we should think about the consequences and roots of illegal acts before we get all sanctimonious. Laws are created to control behavior, and some [Continue]

PETERS – Public safety ignored in Schoenborn decision

September 8, 2017 // 2 Comments

WHEN THE JUSTIC system deals with someone like Allan Schoenborn, public safety must be its number one concern. The system has already decided to treat the man who killed his [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Help fentanyl labs make a safer drug

September 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

ILLEGAL FENTANYL lab operators don’t intend to kill users. They would prefer to have return customers. The problem, I suspect, is that the fentanyl used is so concentrated [Continue]

NATIONAL PULSE – As NAFTA talks turn tense, Canadians look across Atlantic

September 7, 2017 // 1 Comment

Canadians are tentative about trade with China; more bullish on the EU, UK By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE AS NEGOTIATORS for Canada, the United States, and Mexico revealed this week [Continue]

LETTER – ‘No panhandling’ signs needed on Summit and Columbia median

September 7, 2017 // 7 Comments

I recently posted a letter to our current mayor around the city of Kamloops panhandling issue. We currently have a problem at Summit and Columbia. We have people that will be [Continue]

TRAVIS – Sifting through the former government’s credit card charges

September 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

THERE’S NOTHING quite like poring through 87,527 credit card charges to the B.C. government’s plastic in 2016/17. Charges that can often be on top of a [Continue]