Homelessness

GUEST COLUMN – Surviving on the street in limbo from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

May 31, 2023 // 5 Comments

By LYNNE STONIER-NEWMAN Guest Columnist Lynne Stonier-Newman here, sharing the realities of three people I met last Wednesday. I’d nervously rolled into Gaglardi park [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Where is the Magical Mystery Bus bringing homeless here?

May 9, 2023 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WHERE IS IT? I’m looking for the Magical Mystery Bus that pulls into town on a regular basis and drops off a bunch of homeless people to [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Homeless cannot set fires for heat, cooking

May 4, 2023 // 0 Comments

WILL BEATTY, Emergency Preparedness Manager for the City of Kamloops, suggests that the homeless could be justified in setting open fires. “We have to understand that [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – The power of protest – can Enough is Enough fix anything?

April 29, 2023 // 0 Comments

THE PROBLEM WITH PROTESTS is they often don’t know what they’re about and are unsure of where they’re going. Take the “Enough is Enough” rally at the Overlanders [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Is a return to big institutions the answer to street problems?

April 28, 2023 // 2 Comments

The following column was originally published on Oct. 2, 2021. THERE WAS A TIME when the streets weren’t full of homeless, addicted, and unstable people. A time when you [Continue]

SOCIAL DISORDER – Angry residents vent at ‘Enough is enough’ rally

April 27, 2023 // 0 Comments

Seventy-five fed-up Kamloops residents (not 50 or 100 as some reports estimated) rallied in front of City Hall today (Thursday, April 27, 2023) to demand action on the [Continue]

LETTER – The solution no one wants to say out loud

April 25, 2023 // 17 Comments

As the recent fires demonstrate, it’s only a matter of time before the myriad bullshit associated with homelessness causes significant destruction to homes and properties. [Continue]

HOMELESSNESS – Bus depot shelter extended to 2025, Stuart Wood extension official

April 17, 2023 // 3 Comments

BC Housing has arranged to extend the tenure of homeless shelters at both Stuart Wood School and Merit Place (the former Greyhound bus depot). The announcement was made today [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Fires, suitcases and tents, and calls of ‘Enough is enough’

April 17, 2023 // 6 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SO LET’S UPDATE where we’re at. Seven years ago, a public health emergency was declared as drug-related deaths were on the rise. Today, [Continue]

EDITORIAL – BC Housing continues with its ‘done deal’ approach on shelters

April 12, 2023 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. BC HOUSING works in mysterious ways. I mean that both in the sense of being hard to understand, and of operating in an atmosphere of [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Turning a City council meeting into a complete gong show

February 1, 2023 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A GONG SHOW. A circus. A comedy of errors. Those are some of the ways to describe Tuesday’s Kamloops City council meeting. It was painful [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Homelessness arrives in Kamloops but so far so good

January 27, 2023 // 1 Comment

Homelessness is nothing new in Kamloops but, back in the ‘90s, as I wrote in this column published May 7, 1994 in the Kamloops Daily News (under the headline, “On the [Continue]

LETTER – Fast food restaurant is no place for a bath or a dog wash

January 15, 2023 // 2 Comments

The homeless and mental health problem just keeps getting worse. Today we decided to go for an early lunch at a fast food restaurant which I am not naming or locating because [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – There’s a proven option to warehousing the homeless

January 7, 2023 // 1 Comment

‘HOMELESSNESS IS CAUSED by poverty, so we have to tackle poverty by creating more housing. ‘Once we get everybody housed, the crime-addictions-mental illness [Continue]