Author Archives: James Peters
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 1, 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 1, 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
B.C. man tasered by RCMP in Malakwa has died
MALAKWA, B.C. - An Okanagan family is desperate for answers after their son died following a police incident in which the man was subdued by a conducted energy weapon after a traffic stop early Monday...
Oct 30, 2019 Image Credit: Global News / Submitted
Winning $20 million lotto ticket sold in B.C.
KAMLOOPS - The B.C. Lottery Corporation says a ticket buyer in this province is $20 million richer - and may not even know it.In a news release, BCLC says a ticket to last night's Lotto Max draw was s...
Oct 30, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
