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]
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]
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]
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]
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 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
ON THURSDAY (March 21) the BC Coroners Service released updated statistics on deaths among homeless individuals, in British Columbia, to the end of December 2016. Those who [Continue]