Author Archives: James Peters
BC government climbing toward financial stability at ICBC while looking through cost-saving solutions
KAMLOOPS - ICBC is riding a slippery slope of deficits. While the BC government considers potential cost-saving solutions, the minister responsible for the Crown corporation says progress is being mad...
Nov 01, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
City of Kamloops staff say performing arts centre business case would not result in tax increase
KAMLOOPS - City of Kamloops staff say they have analyzed the business case presented last month by the Kamloops Centre for the Arts Society (KCAS) and confirm it will not lead to a property tax increa...
Nov 01, 2019
Kamloops real estate sector bucks 2019 trend with big October
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops real estate sector continued to break out of its malaise with a big month of October.According to new numbers from the Kamloops and District Real Estate Association (KADREA), 2...
Nov 01, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
SOUND OFF: NDP inaction sees small businesses taxed to death on the ‘unused airspace’ over their heads
AS URBAN CENTRES GROW - particularly in the Lower Mainland - city densification plans are placing huge pressures on small businesses through dramatically higher property taxes based on the unused air ...
Nov 01, 2019
Stop the Time Change advocates relieved to see legislation allowing for year-round Daylight Saving Time
KAMLOOPS - For people tired of changing their clocks back and forth each year, progress has been made in legislation required to bring year-round Daylight Saving Time. Today (Oct. 31), the provincial ...
Oct 31, 2019 (Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds)
Violent Iraq, Lebanon protests affecting Canadian military's anti-ISIL mission
OTTAWA - The Canadian military is being forced to adjust and even curtail some aspects of its anti-ISIL mission in Iraq and Lebanon as anti-government protests rock the two countries and threaten to f...
Oct 31, 2019
B.C. tables time change law, but clocks still go back one hour Sunday
VICTORIA - British Columbia has introduced legislation that would eliminate the need to change the clocks twice a year with the creation of Pacific time. Attorney General David Eby says the Inter...
Oct 31, 2019
Police looking for three suspects after five teenagers shot in Toronto
TORONTO - Cleaners were removing large bloodstains splattered along the hallway of a Toronto residential building on Thursday following a shooting that sent five teenagers to hospi...
Oct 31, 2019
Local Sikhs celebrate birthday of Guru Nanak with guest lecture
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Sikh community will celebrate the birthday of the first guru of the Sikhs with a visit from a prestigious guest lecturer this Friday (Nov. 1).This year marks the 550th annivers...
Oct 30, 2019 Image Credit: YouTube / Jagdev Singh Bhandal
B.C. to introduce time-change law but not in time for Sunday's fall change
VICTORIA - British Columbia is set to introduce legislation that would eliminate seasonal time changes, but when it happens still remains a matter of timing.Attorney General David Eby says he will int...
Oct 30, 2019 Image Credit: Chernetskays / Dreamstime.com
