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James Peters is our News Director, promoted to the position in November 2023. He got the journalism bug as a youth and hasn’t been able to shake it since, working in radio newsrooms in Manitoba and Alberta before settling at CFJC in 2006. James anchors the afternoon news on B-100 and 98.3 CIFM, and his newscasts have been honoured multiple times as the best small market newscasts in both BC and Canada. When he’s not working, James enjoys spending time with his wife Jennie, his daughter Eden, and his son Jovan.
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PETERS: Mayor's no good, very bad week could have been avoided
IT'S BEEN A NO GOOD, very bad week for the mayor of Kamloops but it could have gone much differently. Let's recap the last week for Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson.Last Friday, BC Supreme Court Justice Jacqueline Hughes rendered her written decision in Hamer-Jackson's first defamation crusade against Councillor Katie Neustaet...
Feb 06, 2026
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PETERS: In our hurry to Build Kamloops, let's not throw out our links to the past
KAMLOOPS IS A NOSTALGIC TOWN. We keep soft spots in our hearts for old buildings and infrastructure that we remember from years gone by. Take, for example, the outpouring of nostalgia connected with the Red Bridge, which burned down in 2024. That bridge was nice to look at but not so nice to use. Even if it hadn't been...
Jan 30, 2026
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PETERS: With cuts and deferrals, Kamloops council chooses short-term relief over long-term planning
WE ELECTED OUR CITY COUNCILLORS to make tough choices - sometimes choices between two bad options. Kamloops council was faced with just such a decision as it tackled its budget at a Committee of the Whole meeting this week.It was the proverbial rock and a hard place for councillors - choosing between emergency, short-t...
Jan 23, 2026
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PETERS: Can Peter Milobar win the leadership of the BC Conservatives? It's iffy
PETER MILOBAR has been a city councillor, a TNRD board chair, the longest serving mayor of Kamloops and an opposition MLA. His next step will potentially be the biggest one yet - he is running to lead BC's official opposition.Milobar has joined an increasingly crowded field of candidates to lead the BC Conservatives, a...
Jan 16, 2026
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PETERS: If Trump's morality is his only constraint, that's no constraint at all
PEOPLE FREQUENTLY ASK US why we spend so much time and energy on U.S. politics - and specifically on President Donald Trump. Trump Derangement Syndrome, they call it. He's living rent-free in our heads.This week gave us a good reminder why the entire world should be concerned with what's going on in Washington and Mar-...
Jan 09, 2026
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PETERS: It seems simple, but working together will be the key to improving life in Kamloops next year
COUNCIL COMMITTEE MEETINGS are usually duller than a butter knife. They're drier than Clark Griswold's turkey.This week's Economic Health Select Committee meeting, though, featured a spark of an idea that could actually light a fire of positive change in our community. Speaking to the council committee, Acacia Pangilin...
Dec 19, 2025
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PETERS: Boyle's supportive housing move is data-driven decision-making gone wrong
HEARING HOUSING MINISTER Christine Boyle discuss a proposed supportive housing unit on the North Shore this week was a perfect crystallization of the disconnect between the provincial government and local needs. Boyle's predecessor, Ravi Kahlon, had met repeatedly with Kamloops officials and agreed to move the facility...
Dec 12, 2025
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PETERS: With Conservatives' constant infighting, Eby may as well have super-majority
(Ed. note: This editorial aired on CFJC Today on Friday, December 5.)WATCHING JOHN RUSTAD'S RESIGNATION announcement this week was like watching a flash flood erode a riverbank beneath a rickety old house - you know the house is going to collapse and get washed away, you just don't know when.On Wednesday, Rustad played...
Dec 11, 2025
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PETERS: One big - though expensive - step forward for Kamloops
THIS WAS AN INTERESTING WEEK for a ground-breaking at the site of the future Kamloops Centre for the Arts on Fourth Avenue. It's a project that could cost as much as $200 million but one that will, along with the Kelson Group's City Gardens, transform the character of the Kamloops downtown.It was almost exactly 10 year...
Nov 28, 2025
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PETERS: With 5 years of big tax hikes, has the relationship between city hall and Kamloops citizens turned toxic?
FOR MANY YEARS, Kamloops council would try to keep its annual property tax increases right around the rate of increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI).In layperson's terms, CPI measures the prices of everything households spend money on.If it's not reasonable to think our taxes will be flat year after year, it is rea...
Nov 21, 2025
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PETERS: Showing residential school denialists their hatred is not welcome in our community
A NEST OF RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL DENIALISTS was treated to a true Kamloops welcome this week.Some of the leading figures pushing to whitewash the horrors of Canada's residential school system slithered into the city for public talks.They were joined by the two OneBC MLAs, people who were elected as BC Conservatives but lef...
Nov 14, 2025
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PETERS: Justice was simply unattainable for the TRU volleyball players
THERE WILL NEVER BE A WAY to prove what really happened in the cab of Colval Abbinett's pickup truck seconds before it slammed into a small car on McGill Road two years ago.That collision killed Owyn McInnis and forever changed the lives of Riley Brinnen and Owen Waterhouse.Those young men and their families will never...
Nov 07, 2025
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PETERS: What could make someone want to leave Kamloops? Inadequate health care
HAVING LIVE IN KAMLOOPS for almost 20 years, it's fair to say my wife and I are committed to this community - in spite of all its flaws.There are only a few factors that could ever compel us to leave.The crime we're seeing in this city is not one of them. We're not about to move to a smaller community and, in every Can...
Oct 24, 2025
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PETERS: Shopping local cures most supply chain headaches
THE SILVER LINING around some dark economic clouds over the past five years is we're all getting a crash course in basic supply-and-demand economics.During the COVID-19 pandemic, it was the demand side of the supply-and-demand equation that went out of control.People were so uncertain about what was happening and what ...
Oct 17, 2025
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PETERS: Surrance Myers didn't have to die in a Williams Lake RCMP cell
A REPORT RELEASED THIS WEEK into a 2022 in-custody death in Williams Lake is absolutely maddening because it reveals so many different points when the tragedy could have been prevented.Surrance Myers, a 21-year-old Indigenous man, died in a Williams Lake RCMP cell three years ago.He was lodged there after a late-night ...
Oct 10, 2025
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PETERS: Will next year's Kamloops mayor's race be deja vu back to 2022?
WITH COUNCILLOR MIKE O'REILLY the first challenger out of the gate for the mayor's chair, the unofficial municipal campaign has already begun - more than a year before voters actually go to the polls.The two-term councillor was backed by a throng of supporters, including former mayors Terry Lake and Ken Christian, when...
Oct 03, 2025
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PETERS: 'Big tent' parties sound good in theory, but are tough to maintain in practice
"THIS IS A 'BIG TENT' PARTY."Political parties love to say that to communicate how open they are to various diverse perspectives and healthy debate within the walls of their tent.It sounds nice, but putting those ideals into action is often much more difficult.Take the BC Conservatives - who have, since absor...
Sep 26, 2025
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PETERS: Like a trip across the Red Bridge, the rebuild process has been slow and uneven
IT WAS A YEAR AGO that Kamloops and Tk'emlúps awoke to find the Red Bridge that had connected our two communities for generations was gone.Its smoking embers had splashed into the South Thompson River, destroyed by an arsonist's spark.Twelve months later, little has changed at the site.The remnants of the bridge...
Sep 19, 2025
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