Author Archives: James Peters
ROTHENBURGER: Media shouldn’t decide their own bailouts
KAMLOOPS - FEDERAL TAX SUBSIDIES to the media no doubt began with the best of intentions but they promise to end badly.Eight news organizations have been invited to sit on a panel to decide which medi...
May 22, 2019 Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
CFJC Midday - Brewloops! Spring Festival features FireFit Competition
FireFit team competes on home soil at Brewloops downtown block party May 25th & 26th
May 22, 2019
Multi-level government discussions in Kamloops focused on emergency management
KAMLOOPS - While Justin Trudeau was in Kamloops, City Hall played host to the Prime Minister, along with federal and provincial ministers, to discuss emergency management improvements. In particular, ...
May 22, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Burton Cummings to rock Kamloops this fall
KAMLOOPS - Canadian rock legend Burton Cummings will share the land with Kamloops this fall. The former Guess Who frontman is scheduled to play Sagebrush Theatre on October 21. Cummings achieved fame ...
May 22, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
Scheer vows criminal crackdown on human trafficking in election pledge
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is promising funding for police, survivor services and public awareness to fight human trafficking. The previous Conservative government created a four-year ...
May 22, 2019
Once a whistleblower, Bernier's new candidate now promotes conspiracy theories
MONTREAL - Ken Pereira, one of the first people to blow the whistle on corruption in Quebec's construction industry, is running as a Quebec City-area candidate in the fall election for Maxime Bernier'...
May 22, 2019
Wind remains on firefighters' side in bout with northern Alberta wildfire
HIGH LEVEL, Alta. - Despite heavy smoke, officials say a lighter wind out of the northeast has allowed for great progress on reining in a wildfire that's forced thousands of people from their homes in...
May 22, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Abortion debate unlikely to be rekindled in Canada
KAMLOOPS- WILL THE ANTI-ABORTION DEBATE return to a neighbourhood near us?A lot of people seem to be asking that question as the issue suddenly returns to the headlines south of the border, where seve...
May 22, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Trudeau in Kamloops; will declare Lake as Liberal nominee
KAMLOOPS - The prime minister is in Kamloops Tuesday (May 21), his second visit to the River City this year after a visit in January that included a town hall at Thompson Rivers University. Justin Tru...
May 21, 2019 Justin Trudeau during his visit to Kamloops in January 2019. (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Province says B.C. snowpack near 40-year lows for mid-May
KAMLOOPS - Provincial officials say the latest figures show among lowest snowpack conditions for this time of year in the past four decades. And the B.C. River Forecast Centre is warning of low stream...
May 21, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
