Author Archives: James Peters
Edibles not likely to hit B.C. cannabis store shelves until 2020: Public Safety Minister
KAMLOOPS - As of yesterday, edibles were made legal across Canada - but that doesn't mean they're readily available. B.C.'s Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General, Mike Farnworth, tells CFJC ...
Oct 18, 2019 Image Credit: Canadian Press
PETERS: Hold your nose and vote
IF YOU LISTEN LONG ENOUGH, all political campaigns tend to return to the same set of talking points.One of the most commonly used is that this is the most important election of our lifetime.Rationale ...
Oct 18, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
90 Seconds to the Weekend — October 18, 2019
Check out what's coming up this weekend! 90 Seconds to the Weekend provides all the details you need to kick off your weekend with the most current events.
Oct 18, 2019 Image Credit: Thompson Rivers University
CP Holiday Train to visit Kamloops Dec. 15
KAMLOOPS - The CP Holiday Train will be coming back to Kamloops again in 2019.CP has announced the train's schedule for the year, and it will see the festively-decorated diesel rumbling into Kamloops ...
Oct 17, 2019 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Highway 1 closed in both directions after serious crash east of Cache Creek
CACHE CREEK, B.C. - Emergency crews are on scene east of Cache Creek this afternoon after a serious crash.Cpl. Mike Halskov of BC RCMP says Clinton RCMP and Ashcroft RCMP responded to Highway 1 east o...
Oct 16, 2019 (Image Credit: CFJC Today / Dylana Kneeshaw)
Interior Health has lowest rate of overdose deaths in the province: BC Coroners Service
KAMLOOPS - It's been more than three years since a public health emergency was declared in B.C. over a spike in opioid-related overdose deaths - and numbers appear to be trending downward.According to...
Oct 16, 2019 Image Credit: File photo
Six years later, Tk'emlups RCMP still searching for Dean Morrison
KAMLOOPS - Police say the disappearance of a man from the Stump Lake area in October 2013 is still a priority case.In a news release, Cpl. Mike Mucha with Tk'emlups RCMP says officers are continuing t...
Oct 16, 2019 Image Credit: RCMP Handout
2019 Federal Election Issues: Climate
KAMLOOPS - It's a well-known fact that our climate is changing. To what extent is still a bit of an unknown. But 97 per cent of climate scientists around the world believe warming trends over the last...
Oct 15, 2019
Green Party leader pays visit to Kamloops one week before election day
KAMLOOPS - Green leader Elizabeth May and her husband John Kidder, a Green candidate, arrived in Kamloops to much fanfare. The two jumped over to Kamloops after Thanksgiving dinner in Ashcroft. May fe...
Oct 15, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Kamloops woman who set her two children on fire, killing one, granted full parole
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops woman who set her two children on fire 22 years ago, killing one of them, has been granted full parole.However, the Parole Board of Canada says Donna Hysop is still not admitting...
Oct 15, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
