LETTER – Has homelessness become an industry in Kamloops?
Regarding a recent article on homelessness or street-entrenched individuals, I sometimes wonder whether parts of this issue have become an industry unto itself. Many [Continue]
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SINGH – How to end homelessness in Kamloops
By ARJUN SINGH The Kamloops Chronicle OK, I HATE TO BEGIN this column with a disclaimer. But you need to know this before you read further. Here it is: No community will ever [Continue]
LETTER – Bass’ comments on homelessness reflect lack of ideas
Dale Bass did a follow-up interview on CBC Thursday morning regarding her comments from the recent City council discussion about homeless street-entrenched individuals. [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]
ROTHENBURGER – ‘You try to help people, and this is what you get’
Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson’s auto dealership has been vandalized again, and this time it was totally ransacked IT’S BEEN A BAD couple of weeks for Mayor Reid [Continue]
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