Author Archives: James Peters
ROTHENBURGER: Lansdowne parkade mural is a spectacular piece of art
KAMLOOPS - THE NEXT TIME YOU'RE DRIVING down Lansdowne Street, enjoying the reconstruction traffic, look left as you pass the City parkade. You'll probably have time to do this in the slow-moving traf...
May 28, 2019 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
ROTHENBURGER: Vicars Road nightmare will be with us forever
KAMLOOPS - WHEN RANKING THE MOST DANGEROUS driving experiences in Kamloops, the Vicars Road intersection has to be near the top.I was in the neighbourhood the other day and stood for a few minutes wat...
May 28, 2019 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
Here's what Netflix has in store for June
June is typically the beginning of summer blockbusters at the theatre, and with several Netflix originals, a new season of Black Mirror, and one of the coolest animated films I've seen in a while, Net...
May 27, 2019 Image Credit: Empire Online
Wildfire smoke creeping further south from fires in Alberta, Northern B.C.
KAMLOOPS - What is already reality in northern B.C. is slowly making its way south: the dreaded return of wildfire smoke. The province has issued a Smoky Skies Bulletin for the Northeast and North Cen...
May 27, 2019 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Driver caught going 240 km/h on the Coquihalla: RCMP
MERRITT, B.C. - A driver going twice the speed limit on the Coquihalla claims there was a problem with the accelerator in his car. RCMP say in a news release that the driver was stopped on May 12 sout...
May 27, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Cariboo Memorial Hospital maternity services to be temporarily suspended this week
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Expectant mothers in the Cariboo region are being asked to arrange different plans for their deliveries should they happen this week. In a news release, Interior Health says wome...
May 27, 2019 Cariboo Memorial Hospital (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Week in Review — Week of May 20, 2019
Welcome to Week in Review Prime Minister Trudeau visits Kamloops to help acclaim Terry Lake as the local Liberal candidate. People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier stops in Kamloops as he works...
May 27, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
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
