City council

EDITORIAL – Why comparing vote totals for mayor vs. councillors doesn’t work

October 10, 2025 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THERE HAVE BEEN suggestions in recent days that the number of votes received by candidates for councillor are somehow comparable to those [Continue]

LETTER – Waiting for answers on the Saint Patrick’s Day press conference

September 8, 2025 // 5 Comments

Dear Armchair Mayor, Last week I sent an email addressed to all council and Mayor Hamer-Jackson. Of concern to me has been the “fiasco” on St. Patrick’s Day in 2023. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Council must stop shutting down the public on AAP issue

August 15, 2024 // 11 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. OBVIOUSLY, the alternative approval process being used for a pair of multi-million-dollar infrastructure projects is not open for discussion [Continue]

CITY COUNCIL – Answers to the question, ‘What work is getting done’?

May 22, 2024 // 11 Comments

By KELLY HALL Kamloops City Councillor MUNICIPAL COUNCILS are empowered to address the existing and future needs of a community by making collective decisions that are [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Outcome of suspension should have been easy to predict

March 28, 2024 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE LATEST BIT of turmoil at City Hall was always bound to end badly. When Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson suspended acting CAO Byron McCorkell on [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Latest council investigation is a strange prelude to bringing in a referee

September 30, 2023 // 0 Comments

ON THE SAME DAY Coun. Margot Middleton made a motion to ask the B.C. Municipal Affairs Ministry to step in and help council get its act together, councillors retreated behind [Continue]