CHARBONNEAU – The fundamental contradiction in Canada’s drug laws
A B.C. SUPREME COURT judge struck down a section of Canada’s drug laws that found a pair guilty of selling drugs. Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx were originally found [Continue]
Drug addiction
TOXIC DRUG POISONING – A decade of deaths and drivers in Kamloops
By JAYSE HEER-MATONOVICH and PETER TISGARIS Thompson Rivers University THE TOXIC DRUG poisoning crisis has had a profound impact on British Columbia communities, including [Continue]
EDITORIAL – All this talk about solutions to the shelter issue is just pablum
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SO THE PATHWAYS shelter has been given a 20-month extension to operate at the former Butler Auto site on Tranquille Road. Will it make [Continue]
ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Fifty years ago, the ‘riff raff’ were a problem downtown
The terminology, drugs of choice, degree and our own tolerance level may have changed but downtown Kamloops had the same kinds of problems in 1976 as it does in 2026. The [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – B.C.’s beautiful decriminalization failure
IT WAS A WONDERFUL attempt to reverse a century of criminalization but political reality and toxic drugs got in the way. The election cycle of four years leaves little time [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Eby finally figures out what everyone knew about decriminalization
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger, ‘TOLD YOU SO.’ Feels good to say it, especially in view of the alternative. When the David Eby government brought in a pilot [Continue]
