GUEST COLUMN – City’s pesticide practices need to be brought into 2021
By BRONWEN SCOTT Guest Columnist HEY CITY OF KAMLOOPS: The 1950s called — they want their pesticide policy back. And there’s a memo to remind you about your 2019 [Continue]
Pesticides
GUEST COLUMN – How about a pesticide moratorium until we have a plan?
By BRONWEN SCOTT IT’S NOT JUST the TNRD. The city pesticide issue shows Kamloops councillors need to demand full disclosure from their administration as well. The City has [Continue]
LETTER – Some ideas on how the City can stop the use of pesticides
Dear City Council and Staff, I have followed with interest the latest flurry of media stories regarding pesticide use in Kamloops. I’m disappointed that, however she heard [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Tournament Capital needs a fresh look at herbicide use
THERE ARE TWO THINGS I think of whenever I see a picture or news story originating in St. John’s, Newfoundland. One is the beautiful multi-color paint jobs on the City’s [Continue]
KNOX – To bee or not to bee? It’s a question of survival, including ours
I MISS THE BIRDS and the bees. Also the caribou, the foxes and even the skunks. Can’t remember the last time anybody moaned about washing a skunk-sprayed dog with tomato [Continue]
LETTER — Thank you, Tina, Donovan, Arjun, Dieter and Denis
On behalf of all those people who wanted the city to adopt a new pesticide by-law; The ones that sent messages, wrote, called in, or signed our petition at the [Continue]
LETTER — Hard to find words to express disappointment
Tina, Arjun, Donovan, Dennis & Dieter – – – It is difficult to even begin to find the words to tell you what a disappointment you are. I voted for most [Continue]
After two months and two hours of debate, Council puts ban on cosmetic pesticides
By MIKE YOUDS After two months of impassioned debate, hundreds of emails and countless phone calls, it fell to Coun. Arjun Singh’s deciding vote on Tuesday to ban [Continue]
Tuesday is decision day on pesticides
NEWS/ CITY HALL — The fate of a controversial plan to ban the use of cosmetic pesticides in Kamloops will be decided Tuesday, but not before a few more people have their [Continue]
LETTER — Love the planet, ban cosmetic pesticides
LETTER — Please ban cosmetic pesticides for lawns. It’s one tiny step toward being kinder to the planet. We celebrate the biodiversity of Trophy Meadow or the Sun Peaks [Continue]
LETTER — Business group’s stand on pesticides disappointing
LETTER — I was disappointed by the North Shore Business Improvement Association challenge to Coun. Tina Lange’s proposed bylaw change to ban the cosmetic use of [Continue]
LETTER — Tell City council to ban cosmetic pesticides
Below are just some of the important reasons Kamloops new pesticide ban should be adopted. UBC, School of Population and Public Health wrote a letter to the B.C. Members of [Continue]
‘Save landscapes, keep pesticides’
By MIKE YOUDS Banning commercial use of cosmetic pesticides would backfire on the City, leading more property owners to resort to chemicals available at retail stores and [Continue]
GINTA — Walking in each other’s shoes
Daniela Ginta writes for the Armchair Mayor News on Fridays. COLUMN — It was when I broke my leg almost four years ago that I was humbled by the new knowledge I was [Continue]
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