UBCM

LETTER – There are answers to the weaponization of code of conduct rules

October 17, 2024 // 3 Comments

Editor’s note: This letter, addressed to Paul Taylor, the director of communications for the Union of B.C. Municipalities, was sent this week by Ed Wood, the former [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Why Mayor Hamer-Jackson should be at the UBCM convention

September 18, 2024 // 13 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. MOST MEMBERS of Kamloops City council are at the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Vancouver. One of those who isn’t there [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Schmoozing isn’t the only thing that goes on at UBCM confab

September 20, 2023 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THERE’S AN ASSUMPTION that wildfires, homelessness and the housing crunch are going to be the heavy topics in the back rooms and on the [Continue]

PETERS – A torrent of blame to go around after Merritt dike report

September 16, 2023 // 0 Comments

NEXT WEEK’S UBCM CONFERENCE IN VANCOUVER should be an interesting one for our local communities. On one hand, there is the Kamloops crew who will leave the big top and take [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Is cutting off the ‘lolly’ a way of saying NDP is out of ideas?

September 17, 2022 // 1 Comment

LOWERING EXPECTATIONS seems to be the strategy of the John Horgan government this week. He chose the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Whistler to do it. [Continue]

STONE – Horgan government is ignoring the needs of B.C. communities

October 4, 2019 // 2 Comments

By TODD STONE MLA, Kamloops-South Thompson LAST WEEK WAS THE UNION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA MUNICIPALITIES (UBCM) conference in Vancouver, an annual event that gives local leaders [Continue]