Climate change

LETTER – For $4 a household, optics win out over common sense on climate levy

February 22, 2024 // 8 Comments

My thoughts on Tuesday’s Council decision to back off on the Climate Action Levy: Like a lot of communities, it took Kamloops a heck of a long time to: a) Get a climate [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Council should have remembered Wealthy Barber’s advice

February 21, 2024 // 6 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. FORMER CITY COUNCILLOR Arjun Singh must have been sitting on the edge of his seat Tuesday as the current council considered ways to reduce [Continue]

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]