Author Archives: James Peters
ROTHENBURGER: Silly season begins but it’s still a two-horse race
KAMLOOPS - ANOTHER BYELECTION TODAY, this one in Nanaimo-Ladysmith to fill a vacancy left after then-NDP MP Sheila Malcolmson switched to provincial politics and is now an MLA.We know from experience ...
May 06, 2019
RCMP recover body of missing TRU student in North Thompson
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP's Underwater Recovery Team has now recovered the body of a 23-year-old man who went missing yesterday in the North Thompson River. Staff Sgt. Mat Van Laer says around 10:50 a....
May 04, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
ROTHENBURGER - Would you buy a used car from a politician?
I BOUGHT A USED VEHICLE a couple of weeks ago. It reminded me how little I understand about some parts of our tax system.I get the concepts of income taxes and property taxes though they're rife with ...
May 03, 2019 Image Credit: Spencer Sproule / Twitter
File closed on fatal 2018 hit and run
KAMLOOPS - The file around a fatal hit and run in October of 2018 has now been closed, after it was learned the 75-year-old suspect identified by Kamloops RCMP had already passed away. Around 1:30 in ...
May 03, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Balance of Power: B.C. Attorney General David Eby and B.C. Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson
Host James Peters speaks to B.C. Attorney General David Eby about changes to the Independent Investigations Office, the "dumpster fire" at ICBC, the slow rollout of retail cannabis and BCLC's future i...
May 03, 2019
Local business owner grows impatient with provincial approval process for cannabis stores
KAMLOOPS - It's been nearly seven months since recreational cannabis was legalized across Canada. Kamloops was the first community in the province to open up a government owned Cannabis store, and wou...
May 02, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Chad Klassen
LEGASSIC: Focusing on honesty after losing someone to suicide
SEVEN YEARS AGO TODAY, I was at my school, telling some of my closest friends the hardest thing I've ever had to say out loud. My best friend, Chelsey, was dead. I'll never forget the reactions from m...
May 02, 2019 Image Credit: Justin Lee Photography
ROTHENBURGER: Should students be allowed to strike for climate action? Absolutely
STUDENTS IN DOZENS of Canadian schools and elsewhere in the world will go on strike tomorrow.Some will undoubtedly say, "How dare they? They should be punished."I say they should be commended. They're...
May 01, 2019 File photo: (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Lynx on verge on being released to natural habitat after tick infestation
KAMLOOPS - It is tick season, but it is not only affecting people who are out in the backcountry. Animals in the Kamloops area are also victims of the blood-sucking creatures. A lynx is recovering at ...
May 01, 2019 Cinnamon the lynx was found by conservation officers on Mar. 21 before being transported to the B.C. Wildlife Park (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
ROTHENBURGER: City council has a lot of explaining to do to Turtle Valley
KAMLOOPS - THE TURTLE VALLEY protest is heating up and it's time for Kamloops City council to wake up and - as concerned residents suggest - smell the biosolids.Unfortunately, it won't have another me...
Apr 30, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
