Kamloops City council

CITY COUNCIL – AAP to be used for vote on borrowing for new police station

June 11, 2025 // 11 Comments

Borrowing $150 million for a new police station will be decided with an alternative approval process, Kamloops City council decided Tuesday (June 10, 2025). The APP, formerly [Continue]

CITY COUNCIL – Bart Simpson to blame for tossing out public inquiries

June 10, 2025 // 3 Comments

Bart Simpson wasn’t registered for a public inquiry at today’s Kamloops City council meeting (June 10, 2025) but he made it into the discussion anyway. Mayor Reid [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Council repeatedly shows it’s not interested in our opinion

June 10, 2025 // 7 Comments

By GARRY DAVIES Guest Columnist “WHAT TO MAKE of a diminished thing.” As I read the recent report on Kamloops debt load per person, I found myself realizing that we [Continue]

CITY COUNCIL – Mayor ‘chief instigator of chaos,’ claims letter to Kahlon

June 9, 2025 // 6 Comments

A City council report to Municipal Affairs Minister Ravi Kahlon outlines a litany of grievances against Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson, characterizing his behaviour as “resulting [Continue]

JOHNSON – Will Kamloops City council fix its boondoggle ways?

May 29, 2025 // 10 Comments

NOTE: This is part one of a two-part column on City council boondoggles. CALLED IT last summer, but I didn’t use the word ‘boondoggle’ … should’ve. Talking about [Continue]

EDITORIAL – How council jumped at latest excuse to shelve public inquiries

May 28, 2025 // 8 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. AL KOEHOLIC is, no doubt, having a good chuckle over Tuesday’s council meeting in which the latest ridiculous decision was made to suspend [Continue]