Author Archives: James Peters
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
Another illegal dispensary in Kamloops to shut its doors
KAMLOOPS - Another illegal cannabis dispensary in Kamloops is expected to shut its doors today. City of Kamloops business licence inspector Dave Jones says Boomer's Buds, formerly the Phyven Herbal Di...
May 15, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: City council needs wisdom of Solomon on tax ratios
KAMLOOPS - THE ANNUAL DANCE between Domtar and the City is underway.For the past eight or nine years, the pulp mill has been demanding a better deal on the taxes it and other heavy industries pay to t...
May 14, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Wanted man aides in his own arrest after disclosing his location to CFJC Today
KAMLOOPS - A man has been transported back to Kamloops after his B.C. warrant was extended to Alberta. Kamloops RCMP say this came after police released Jessie Dean Kowalchuk's photo to local media as...
May 14, 2019 Image Credit: RCMP Handout
Kamloops Transit monthly fare rates to drop, transfers gone, new rate created for low income riders
KAMLOOPS - For the first time since 2015, Kamloops council is moving forward with fare changes for rides on conventional Kamloops Transit. Included in the changes is the elimination of transfers, some...
May 14, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Buse Creek fire east of Kamloops now being held; Richter Creek fire near Osoyoos still out of control
KAMLOOPS - A wildfire that sparked east of Kamloops over the weekend is now under control. B.C. Wildfire Information Officer Hannah Swift says the Buse Creek fire remains at 19 hectares, and a hand gu...
May 14, 2019 Image Credit: BC Wildfire Service
