Author Archives: James Peters
GINTA: The world can be changed for the better and many are doing it already
IF YOU WERE TO SIT WITH US FOR DINNER on any given night, you would be privy to a recurrent conversation that surfaces whenever social issues such as poverty, violation of human rights and modern-day ...
May 20, 2019 Image Credit: Oliver Perez / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: Once again, we vow never to let it happen again
SO OFTEN WE HEAR of tragedies after which we all vow to make sure they never happen again. "We have to make sure no one else ever has to go through that," we say. And yet, the same bad things happen a...
May 20, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Trudeau expected back in Kamloops for Liberal nomination event
KAMLOOPS - The Prime Minister will be returning to Kamloops Tuesday (May 21) to show his support for federal Liberal nominee, Terry Lake. Lake, a former Mayor of Kamloops, MLA, and BC Health Minister,...
May 19, 2019
IIO gathering details of police-involved motorcycle incident in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Following a police-involved motorcycle incident in Kamloops last night (May 18), the province's police watchdog has now been notified. In a statement from the Independent Investigations Off...
May 19, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Carbon monoxide poisonings at Salmon Arm campground leave one dead, another hospitalized
SALMON ARM - Earlier today, a Salmon Arm campground was struck with tragedy at the start of the May long weekend. RCMP have confirmed one person is dead and a child has been hospitalized following car...
May 18, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: We’ve now crossed the line of incivility into death threats
IT KEEPS GETTING TOUGHER and tougher to serve your community in politics. This week, a 52-year-old man was arrested for threatening the life of Kelowna mayor Colin Basran.It's worth examining how this...
May 18, 2019 Image Credit: Facebook / Colin Basran
PETERS: McLachlin Report shows the legislature needs proper supervision
THE MANY WAYS adults act like children will never cease to be fascinating. From video game obsessions to adult colouring books, more and more grown-ups are trying to hold onto childhood as long as pos...
May 17, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
Balance of Power: Dr. Joel Wood from TRU's School of Business and Economics and Mayor Ken Christian
Host James Peters gets into the details of carbon pricing in B.C. and across Canada with Dr. Joel Wood, assistant professor in TRU's School of Business and Economics. Next, James talks to Kamloops May...
May 16, 2019
City of Kamloops hoping to educate public about biosolid production in wake of protests, blockades
KAMLOOPS - Biosolids has been a contentious issue in the region. Currently, they are being trucked out of the Kamloops Sewage Treatment Centre to the Turtle Valley near Chase. However, for weeks, prot...
May 16, 2019 Kamloops biosolids produced at the city's sewage treatment centre on Mission Flats Road (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
ROTHENBURGER: Forget the bikinis, just serve some really good food
I REALLY THOUGHT the days were mostly over of restaurants requiring their female servers to wear skimpy attire. I say "mostly," because you can still find in this town the occasional restaurant where ...
May 16, 2019 Image Credit: Dafrica / Dreamstime.com
