Climate change

CLIMATE – Open letter collects signatures urging council to keep levy

February 19, 2024 // 1 Comment

As City council heads into the final stages of budget season, a move to re-consider climate action funding at Tuesday’s Committee of the Whole meeting has quickly generated [Continue]

LETTER – City council must stay the course on its climate action levy

February 19, 2024 // 1 Comment

We are calling upon Kamloops City Council to stay the course on our award-winning Climate Action Levy. Council is to decide whether or not to retain the funding increase as [Continue]

WEATHER – Ice storms, January downpours, heavy snow, no snow: ‘warming winter syndrome’

January 29, 2024 // 1 Comment

By RICHARD B. (Ricky) ROOD University of Michigan ONE OF THE MOST robust measures of Earth’s changing climate is that winter is warming more quickly than other seasons. The [Continue]

SUZUKI – Progress made at COP28 summit but we must stand up to Big Oil

December 13, 2023 // 2 Comments

LIKE THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY before it, the fossil fuel industry is doing all it can to survive — and to keep raking in excessive profits — in the face of irrefutable [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Kamloops residents stepping up to work on climate action

November 21, 2023 // 1 Comment

By GISELA RUCKERT Transition Kamloops IN A WORLD where there are so many demands on our time, the challenge of putting aside energy to devote to community projects is real. [Continue]

SUZUKI – Record ocean heating presents stark warning

August 9, 2023 // 2 Comments

OUR HOME PLANET operates like an intricately interconnected organism, with networks and processes, from minuscule to massive, coming together to create conditions conducive [Continue]