Reid Hamer-Jackson

ROTHENBURGER – Report on Sarai’s Tapegate results in slap on the wrist

June 6, 2025 // 4 Comments

COUN. BILL SARAI should be breathing a sigh of relief today. His punishment for Tapegate will be a slap on the wrist. No instant pay cut, no banishment from committees, no [Continue]

COFFEE WITH THE MAYOR – ‘Keep budget increase to 2%, and cut councillors’ and managers’ pay’

April 7, 2025 // 4 Comments

A conversation with Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson as Kamloops City council ponders the annual budget and tax rate increase for residents, which is now expected to be just over [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – As we await Sarai probe, Kahlon declines involvement

March 25, 2025 // 5 Comments

AS A CITY HALL investigation into Coun. Bill Sarai’s clandestine taping of a conversation with Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson remains a work in progress, Municipal Affairs [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Fretting over stray ‘secret’ report doesn’t address real issue

February 9, 2025 // 8 Comments

THERE’S SOMETHING about the mayor’s current legal issue with the Ministry of the Attorney-General that doesn’t sit right. Let’s do a quick review. After months of [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Secret tape ‘didn’t work out the way I had planned’

January 18, 2025 // 12 Comments

WHEN COUN. BILL SARAI secretly taped an argument with Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson in January 2023, he didn’t know the tape would be subject to a Freedom of Information [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Will the sun rise in the west over City Hall this year?

January 13, 2025 // 3 Comments

CIVIC POLITICIANS get back to work this week and the question is, will anything be different? Come Tuesday (Jan. 14, 2025) , for example, will councillors manage to stay [Continue]