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MEL’S NOTES – The next civic election, Fargo and a stressful time for parents

June 4, 2021 // 0 Comments

IT MIGHT SEEM EARLY to be talking about the 2022 civic election but a mayoralty race is already shaping up. That will be my topic for Saturday’s Armchair Mayor [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Finding somewhere for the street folks to go isn’t easy

June 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED, as you drive up from Victoria Street West onto Seymour, there’s usually a half dozen street folks hanging out at the honking big utilities box [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Discovery of gravesites highlights the tragedy of Indian residential schools

May 29, 2021 // 0 Comments

THE GRIM DISCOVERY of the apparent gravesites of 215 children will undoubtedly change some thinking about what went on at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in the almost [Continue]

EDITORIAL – It will be very easy to blow the Four Step COVID recovery plan

May 26, 2021 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE BIG COVID ANNOUNCEMENT yesterday has brought a lot less cheering than I expected. After all, restrictions are going to ease up [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – More on the park decision and high-risk takedowns

May 22, 2021 // 0 Comments

SOME FURTHER DETAILS need to be laid out to fully understand how an extremely effective lobby from within the business community quickly worked its way up through the City [Continue]

EDITORIAL: City council blew it by springing Riverside Park plan on public

May 19, 2021 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. PUBLIC CONSULTATION is a great aspiration for public bodies but Kamloops City council failed the test yesterday on the issue of [Continue]