Author Archives: James Peters
GINTA: Sometimes we need a break from it all
NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I SEE IT, I never get tired of it: the emerald sheen of the surrounding hills this time of the year, the play of cloud shadows and sunshine that makes the grasslands look as i...
May 27, 2019 Image Credit: Daniela Ginta
Scheer accuses Trudeau of 'stacking the deck' to get re-elected
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says the Liberals' decision to name an anti-Conservative union to a panel that will decide which media outlets receive government funding is the latest examp...
May 27, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Scheer’s national energy corridor just another pipe dream
KAMLOOPS - WAS THERE EVER a more absurd scheme than Andrew Scheer's proposal to create what he calls a "national energy corridor"?The timing of his idea was perfect, coming as the B.C. Court of Appeal...
May 26, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
Greens call for ban on foreign oil imports, using Alberta oil instead
OTTAWA - Green party Leader Elizabeth May says saving the world from climate change requires Canada to get off oil before the middle of the century. In the meantime, she wants Canada to stop burning f...
May 27, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: No sign of a wave coming to help out candidates
EVERYBODY IN TOWN knows who's going to win the next federal election. Just ask them.And who will be the next MP for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo? Just ask them.Here's a hint - it won't be Gina Myhill-Jon...
May 25, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
90 Seconds to the Weekend — May 24, 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.
May 24, 2019
Balance of Power: Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod and Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Peter Milobar
Host James Peters talks to the incumbent Conservative MP for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo, Cathy McLeod, about how her party is preparing for the fall election. Then, James catches up with B.C. Liberal M...
May 24, 2019
Maxime Bernier trying to distinguish new party from Conservatives, Liberals
KAMLOOPS - Maxime Bernier is travelling across the country trying to separate himself and his new People's Party of Canada from his former Conservative colleagues. "We're very different than the Conse...
May 23, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Chad Klassen
CHARBONNEAU: Sometimes it's not easy being a pro-vaxxer
DESPITE THE FACT THAT VACCINES have saved uncountable lives and virtually wiped out smallpox, polio, tetanus and rabies, vaccine risks exist. When those risks result in death, people lose trust in all...
May 23, 2019 Image Credit: Felipe Caparros Cruz / Dreamstime.com
Federal New Democrats to acclaim Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo candidate this weekend
KAMLOOPS - A South Cariboo woman will be acclaimed this Sunday as the Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo NDP candidate for the federal election. Nomination meetings will be held on May 26 in 100 Mile House, Cl...
May 23, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
