City of Kamloops

LETTER – Homeowners continue to bear the brunt of property tax increases

December 3, 2019 // 1 Comment

December 2, 2019 Kamloops Voters Society RE: Increases in City of Kamloops Residential Property Taxes As the City moves forward with its annual budgeting process, Kamloops [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Don’t wait until tax notice arrives in mail before speaking up

December 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

NEXT YEAR, WHEN you receive your property tax bill, you’ll probably hesitate, if only for a moment, before opening the envelope. That hesitation is normal and allows for [Continue]

PARKCREST FIRE – City, TNRD offer free activities for those impacted by fire

September 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

The City of Kamloops has stepped up to offer free activities for those impacted by the destruction of Parkcrest elementary school Thursday night (Sept. 5, 2019). The City is [Continue]

EDITORIAL – City’s latest video sounds like a partisan plug for council

August 27, 2019 // 3 Comments

An editorial byMel Rothenburger. IT’S STILL EARLY IN THE WEEK and everybody has a right to feel a bit crabby early in the week so here’s my beef for the day. I happened [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Saga of wandering bear family provides teachable moment

August 22, 2019 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. AT THIS WRITING, the fate of the mother bear and her two cubs wandering around Kamloops is uncertain. Hopefully, they’ve found their way [Continue]

BEPPLE – Kamloops zoning bylaws encourage waste of housing space

July 24, 2019 // 4 Comments

EVERY DAY, there’s another story on affordable housing. There was the report this week that a worker in Vancouver needs to earn $35/hour to afford the rent of an average [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Life in a small town can get a bit silly at times

June 15, 2019 // 3 Comments

LIFE IN A SMALL TOWN can get kind of silly, sometimes, can’t it? By small town, I mean, of course, small in the best sense of the word, a place where you can walk down the [Continue]

LETTER – City’s shift in tax burden from industry to homeowners is unfair

May 10, 2019 // 2 Comments

May 10, 2019 RE: Industrial Tax Rate Discussion Dear Kamloops Mayor and Council: The Kamloops Voters Society (KVS) is concerned with the City’s on-going plan to alter [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Drivers are behaving badly in Victoria St. West construction zone

April 18, 2019 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. If YOU HAVEN’T HAD the dubious pleasure of running the Victoria Street West gauntlet during rush hour this week, here’s a tip — keep [Continue]

PETERS – Our biosolids, our business – we should all be concerned about it

April 6, 2019 // 1 Comment

HUMANS HAVE NEVER BEEN especially good at dealing with our waste. We like to do silly things with our garbage like toss it out the window of our cars for someone else to [Continue]

EDITORIAL – How much money is being wasted on Victoria Street West project?

March 12, 2019 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. GET READY TO PRACTICE your zipper merge. Remember 2015, when the Overlanders Bridge was being rehabilitated and we spent eight months [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – The big difference between listening and empowering

February 9, 2019 // 2 Comments

ENGAGEMENT, CONSULTATION AND TRANSPARENCY are big words in governments of all levels right now. Issues like pipeline expansion, electoral reform and First Nations rights come [Continue]

BEPPLE – Open house on secondary suites showed positive side of politics

February 6, 2019 // 2 Comments

SOMETIMES IT’S HARD not to become jaded and pessimistic about politics. After the last two years of watching President Trump lead the U.S. into more and more chaos, [Continue]

FORSETH – A look at the proposed 3.38 percent hike for Kamloops taxpayers

January 15, 2019 // 6 Comments

NOT THAT MANY days ago, Kris Sims, the B.C. Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, stated that, “… people should brace for big tax hikes on a number of fronts [Continue]