Homelessness

ROTHENBURGER: City has a Hobson’s Choice – will it be hockey or homeless?

October 12, 2021 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. HOCKEY OR HOMELESS? That appears to be the choice right now when it comes to Memorial Arena. Hockey kids are shut out of the arena while BC [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Don’t confuse all the homeless with city’s street menagerie

July 29, 2021 // 1 Comment

A FEW DERANGED, mentally ill and brain-addled addicts on Kamloops’ streets get a lot of attention. But don’t label all the homeless as troublemakers. Kamloops RCMP [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – BC Housing should value their friends on City council

July 1, 2021 // 1 Comment

CITY COUNCILLORS support public housing but the recent announcement by the B.C. government took them by surprise. In a press release, BC Housing said that they had purchased [Continue]

EDITORIAL – BC Housing’s done-deal approach simply isn’t acceptable

June 23, 2021 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. MAYBE BUYING THE FORTUNE MOTEL was a good idea. Maybe it will prove to be a good location for housing the homeless but, maybe not. BC [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Finding somewhere for the street folks to go isn’t easy

June 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED, as you drive up from Victoria Street West onto Seymour, there’s usually a half dozen street folks hanging out at the honking big utilities box [Continue]

PETERS – A heart-warming story generated a heart-warming response

March 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

A LOT OF PEOPLE say they love seeing the media cover good news and sick of all the bad news. That’s patently not true. Audience analytics reliably tell you that it’s the [Continue]

POLICE – Videoed altercation involving security guard under investigation

March 24, 2021 // 0 Comments

Police are investigating an altercation between a security guard and another man that was captured on video. RCMP said today (March 24, 2021) they responded to a report of [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Let’s get facts on kicking incident before we pass judgment

March 24, 2021 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WE’RE ALWAYS WILLING to jump to conclusions well before the facts have been properly collected and assessed. As revealed in a citizen [Continue]

LETTERS – Sudden act of kindness showed the spirit of Kamloops

March 23, 2021 // 0 Comments

I was stopped behind a small white car in the left hand turn lane at McGill and Summit at 9:45 a.m. on Monday (March 22, 2021). The driver, a young woman, jumps out of her [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Solution to disappearing shopping carts remains elusive

February 13, 2021 // 2 Comments

GOING ON FOUR YEARS after shopping carts became a high-profile issue, there’s still no solution. In 2017, RCMP embarked on a crackdown on shopping-cart theft, seizing carts [Continue]

LETTER – Make Tranquille into a working farm for the homeless

November 2, 2020 // 4 Comments

Hello…..All I am hearing about lately are the problems on Columbia Street and all the issues with housing for the homeless in Kamloops. May I suggest what may be a [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – One-time handout to the homeless reduces social costs

October 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT MAY SEEM counterintuitive to give cash to homeless people. Didn’t their poor money skills get them on the street in the first place? The University of British Columbia [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Kamloops homeless population needs to sleep

January 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

KAMLOOPS AGENCIES CARE FOR THE SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL needs of our homeless: faith, food, warmth in the winter, air conditioning in the summer. However, there is no place to [Continue]

PETERS – With Out of the Cold needing space, where are the churches?

January 18, 2020 // 3 Comments

CHURCHES IN KAMLOOPS, as in most communities in B.C., are eligible to be exempt from paying property taxes. In that way, they are in the same category as property belonging [Continue]